Phuket police confirm new traffic fines to start Nov 1

By The Phuket News

 

The new traffic fines will start this Sunday (Nov 1). Photo: Patong Police

 

PHUKET: The raft of new traffic fines approved by Cabinet earlier this year will come into effect next Monday (Nov 1), Phuket Provincial Police Deputy Commander Col Santat Layangkul has confirmed.

 

 

 

The new traffic penalties were published in the Government Gazette in August, and see the minimum penalties raised for a host of minor traffic infractions, but the penalties for drunk driving remain the same as those brought into law in 2015, said Col Santat, who oversees all Traffic Police throughout the province.

 

“Phuket police are ready to apply the new traffic fines on Nov 1. I am sure they will work in reducing the number of moving violations, hence making the roads safer,” he said.

 

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Driving without a driving license...200 Baht........what a joke.

They must be hurting, not many Farangs around to shake down.

“Phuket police are ready to apply the new traffic fines on Nov 1. I am sure they will work in reducing the number of moving violations, hence making the roads safer,” he said.

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Will never happen

hence making the roads safer,” he said.

 

Nothing wrong with the roads it's the plonkers using them

Yesterday I see a woman riding a bike one young kid hanging on to the back of her while she was carrying a even younger one, 

Good idea to stand outside the schools would be a good place to start get them while they are young you might have some success,

Hands up......who knew there were that many different traffic offences in Thailand?

 

PS What happened to the points system? Is it operational or simply forgotten about?

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

hence making the roads safer,” he said.

 

Nothing wrong with the roads it's the plonkers using them

 

 

There is a lot wrong with Thai roads, from the quality of the surface to the actual design of the road itself.

Polished greasy surfaces which become slick in the wet, to U-Turns positions on the brow of a hill, tightening off camber corners or down-right confusing intersections and late haphazard signage.

 

All are often contributing factors to an accident which is compounded by the idiotic nature of the driving here in Thailand which is primarily a result of zero driver education and training. 

 

The primary factor contributing towards road accidents is the ineffective policing. 

 

With the exception of ‘having to report within 24 hours of being involved an accident’ enabling people to flee the scene of hit and runs and when drunk, the road laws in Thailand are pretty good, the fines are perhaps too light. 

The real issue is that the Police simply do not enforce the laws. 

 

The Police set up periodic check points to check licences etc or hang around a couple ‘no left turn on red’ junctions in town to try and catch people out. Actually effective policing, catching red light jumpers, dangerous drivers, patrolling the roads and pulling over people for idiotic driving etc is not carried out - The level of apathy employed by Thailands police force to police its roads is a key factor in the high incidence of accidents and fatalities. 

 

 

An announcement such as this is a typically juvenile approach, it completely sidesteps and circumnavigates the real issues and is instead nothing more than complete pretence. 

 

Ultimately no one high enough in a position of decision making power cares enough to effect real change, most likely because they are not impacted financially by 26,000 deaths a year.

 

That is an unfortunate the bottom line in a morally and financially corrupt organisation of policing and policy makers. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So it sounds like discounts will be given compared to what they are handing out now here.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

...but the penalties for drunk driving remain the same as those brought into law in 2015, said Col Santat, who oversees all Traffic Police throughout the province.

I would have believed that the fine for "drunk driving", would be very important to increase, for improvement of traffic safety...????

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• Driving on footpath without necessary reason (B500)

I wonder what "necessary reason" for driving on a footpath is...????

Sorry, but you can't fix F\U\B\A\R

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Riding a bicycle outside of the bicycle lane  (B200)

 

what bike lanes?

 

10 minutes ago, zzzzz said:

 

what bike lanes?

 

 

There were huge issues in Bangkok - the bike lanes were a great idea, then Thai-ness slipped into the fray.

 

Vendors placed their food carts in the bike lanes, cars parked in them. Due to a lack of enforcement before long the sense of entitlement slipped in that the bike lanes could be used for almost anything else except cycling !!!! 

 

A great initiative poorly executed and poorly policed - they are all but non existent now.

(This was in Bangkok, I’m not aware of any Bike Lanes in Phuket)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guys, be happy with that what it is. Who wants or needs rediculous traffic regulations like in the West, S'pore, Japan... ???

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

I would have believed that the fine for "drunk driving", would be very important to increase, for improvement of traffic safety...????

I wonder what "necessary reason" for driving on a footpath is...????

Keep your 1 foot on the ground while using footpath, it's not driving then...

Didn't the head cheese recently announce no more traffic stops throughout Thailand?

200b without receipt, 500 baht with. Same old game. Next!

do you not think APRIL THE FIRST IS GOOD DATE???

7 hours ago, khunPer said:

I would have believed that the fine for "drunk driving", would be very important to increase, for improvement of traffic safety...????

I wonder what "necessary reason" for driving on a footpath is...????

 

Probably the 2 most common "necessary reasons" will be:

   (1) Traffic too slow on the street, so I have to drive on the footpath.

   (2) Traffic on the street is going in the opposite direction to where I want to go, so I have to drive on the footpath.

 

 

How will fines for any of the moving violations listed be enforced?

 

Has anyone here ever seen the police pull over a car, truck or motorbike for a moving violation in Phuket? That would require the police to follow the violator in a vehicle and pull them over to issue a fine.

 

In all my years in Phuket, I've not seen one instance of a citation being issued anywhere except a roadblock/checkpoint, and those citations would only be for non-moving violations (no helmet, no license, etc).

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

There were huge issues in Bangkok - the bike lanes were a great idea, then Thai-ness slipped into the fray.

 

Vendors placed their food carts in the bike lanes, cars parked in them. Due to a lack of enforcement before long the sense of entitlement slipped in that the bike lanes could be used for almost anything else except cycling !!!! 

 

A great initiative poorly executed and poorly policed - they are all but non existent now.

(This was in Bangkok, I’m not aware of any Bike Lanes in Phuket)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No money to make on cyclist, cars motorbikes on the other hand sell well and the drivers/passengers tops it up with filling up hotels, shopping centers/ and not to forget hospitals. Great when have shares both in the service industry, car manufactures and hospitals.????

only issue i have is ambulance and police cars, tell the drivers to just use the sirene and lights when on emergency call and not when they on the way to 7/11. and train them driving, if on emergency call you have right of way, so go for it, there are injured people who need you.

13 hours ago, J Town said:

Didn't the head cheese recently announce no more traffic stops throughout Thailand?

I think what he said was no more Road Blocks

How’s about a few hundred baht for those who have paint sprayed over their rego plates to avoid speed cameras. ????

2 hours ago, Patriot said:

How’s about a few hundred baht for those who have paint sprayed over their rego plates to avoid speed cameras. ????

Or the green taxi plates where the white fades, making reading the plates impossible.

22 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Driving without a driving license...200 Baht........what a joke.

So is the license.