Cabinet acknowledges traffic accident reduction plan for New Year

[webfact]

Cabinet acknowledges traffic accident reduction plan for New Year

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thai cabinet ministers have acknowledged a traffic accident reduction plan for the New Year, aimed at reducing the number of road accidents in red zones by at least 5 percent of the past three years’ average number.

 

The Deputy Government Spokeswoman, Traisuree Taisaranakul, said today that the cabinet ministers acknowledged the integrated plan to prevent and reduce road accidents during the New Year celebrations.

 

It focuses on location-based management, and complies with measures and guidelines to help limit the spread of COVID-19. The government, the private sector, military units, civic groups, local administrations, communities, villages, volunteers and members of the public will be involved in minimizing risk factors associated with road accidents, including people, vehicles, road conditions and the environment.

 

The plan will run on the theme "New Normal, Drive Safely, No Accident". Performance indicators will include the number of accidents, fatalities and injured persons.

 

The plan is aimed at bringing down the number of road accidents in red zones at the provincial and district levels during the New Year break by at least 5 percent of the past three years’ average.

 

The five measures to prevent road accidents include management, reducing risk factors associated with roads and the environment, reducing risk factors associated with vehicles, promoting road safety among road users, and providing assistance following an accident.

 

 

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[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

The five measures to prevent road accidents include management, reducing risk factors associated with roads and the environment, reducing risk factors associated with vehicles, promoting road safety among road users, and providing assistance following an accident.

So that should mean that during the period and 24/7 that all RTP officers are working, as in a maximum enforcement capacity driving up and down the roadways, all of the Metropolitan bureau police officers that can work are working the roads of Bangkok and all City police officers are working.  Making traffic stops for speeding, unsafe lane changes, no helmets, no seatbelts, people seated in the beds of pickups, and the list goes on.  If they really wanted to save life then they need to be proactive instead of reactive and going to an accident.

[Thaiwrath]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

The plan will run on the theme "New Normal, Drive Safely, No Accident"

[KannikaP]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

Performance indicators will include the number of accidents, fatalities and injured persons.

The five measures to prevent road accidents include management, reducing risk factors associated with roads and the environment, reducing risk factors associated with vehicles, promoting road safety among road users, and providing assistance following an accident.

Don't they do that now? 94 dead on Monday!

 

And after the NY holidays, every man for himself again.

Edited December 16, 2020 by KannikaP

[Phuketshrew]

Only 5% ??? Aiming high ....but I guess 5% would be better than they have achieved thus far.

[welshguy]

Its quite sad really.

 

Thousands of lives are ruined each year on Thai roads.

 

Its going to take years and it will be a monumental task, to drastically reduce the number of road deathes/crashes in Thailand.

 

Training? Virtually non existent.

 

Road  "sense"? Virtually non existent

 

Driving dangerously overloaded? Happens all the time.

 

Children driving motorbikes, with 2, 3 or more on the motorbike? Daily occurence?

 

Wearing of crash helmets on motorbikes or safety belts in cars?  Everyday occurence.

 

Driving whilst drunk? Very common , wear an amulet , and "I safe"!  This DOES happen.

 

Tailgating?  Seems to be a very common  thing.

 

U-turns?  Where does one start?!

 

Stopping at a red light?  Not foreverybody.

 

"Policing" of roads etc?  Very little, and not effective at all.

 

People sat in the back of pick ups?  Daily occurence.

 

Etc. Etc.

 

I could go on and on, but Ive got a dentist appointment soon!

 

Im in no way suggesting its an easy task to achieve ...........in any country.......in Thailand though....it will be a huge task to get the number of deaths on Thai roads down to an "acceptable" level.

 

In the U.K. for example...drink driving was much more common in the  60s and 70s....it took years and years of action, to get the drink driving level down...Thats just one factor.......Thailand has MANY factors to take into account....God help them..............They certainly need it....surely........ something has to be done to stop or at least lessen the number of crashes/deaths on the Thai roads?

[Misterwhisper]

And just as certain as Songkran, Loy Krathong, and New Year return every year, the Thai government and its agencies announce the same stale "plan" -- which of course will fail just as surely as the ten thousand other "plans" did that preceded it.

 

Wash, rinse, repeat.

[worgeordie]

Another year, another plan to reduce road accidents and deaths,

they never seem to work, the only new thing is their new saying

 "New Normal, Drive Safely, No Accident". if only it would work.

regards Worgeordie

[sherwood]

The Deputy Government Spokeswoman, Traisuree Taisaranakul is cute though.

Not much else to say on the ever increasing road carnage, it just gets worse year on year.

Be Alert people, this country needs more lerts.

[samsensam]

why only new year? is the carnage acceptable at other times of the year?

[djayz]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"New Normal, Drive Safely, No Accident"

Give it all the flashy names you want to, but my money's on the same or worse results than last year's. 

Unless there's a genuine will to change, nothing's going to improve IMHO. 

[trainman34014]

More Hot Air from the Brainless wonders of Bangkok !

[colinneil]

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai cabinet ministers have acknowledged a traffic accident reduction plan for the New Year, aimed at reducing the number of road accidents in red zones by at least 5 percent of the past

What a bloody joke, ha,ha ,ha, acknowledge all the plans you want, wont make any difference what so ever, it will be the usual carnage.

[yeahbutif]

Sounds like a lot of words that mean nothing.

[djayz]

Reading through this and other similar threads, I often wonder if the locals are as critical, cynical and outraged as we are? 

[madmitch]

So basically, despite all the ridiculous buzzwords, it'll be the same as every year.

[Asquith Production]

13 hours ago, djayz said:

Reading through this and other similar threads, I often wonder if the locals are as critical, cynical and outraged as we are? 

Most locals wont even know about these Government plans.

[Enzian]

Nothing in the article mentions having the police actually do their job, which just confirms the point I've been hammering on, on this forum, that the RTP are a separate franchise from the government/military and with rare and occasional exceptions are exempt from control, direction and oversight from the government. 

One exception that matters to us is that Immigration is part of the Police, and the government sometimes does introduce tweaks to the details of how Immigration operates, which the Police accept. But as far as traffic enforcement, nothing really happens.

What if the protestors pick this up as one of their demands, that the government/military exert control over Police operations?

[Retfed50]

Same sh*t, different day!

[mikebell]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai cabinet ministers have acknowledged a traffic accident reduction plan

They're not going to do anything but recognise/acknowledge the result of thousands of free lunches/travel expenses.  Thailand officials are always mulling/planning but NEVER implementing. If they had a police force that cracked down on speeding the 5% reduction would easily be achieved.

Look at the figures for Monday of this week!

[natway09]

It is not the cabinet we are concerned about .

This come & goes every year without any action except road block stops for checks which are as useless as tits on a bull. Until they bite the bullet, put mufti cops on the road & the Police Commander gets real about his boys working & not just lining their pockets the carnage will continue sadly

 

[Burma Bill]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

have acknowledged a traffic accident reduction plan for the New Year

[decca60]

19 hours ago, welshguy said:

Its quite sad really.

 

Thousands of lives are ruined each year on Thai roads.

 

Its going to take years and it will be a monumental task, to drastically reduce the number of road deathes/crashes in Thailand.

 

Training? Virtually non existent.

 

Road  "sense"? Virtually non existent

 

Driving dangerously overloaded? Happens all the time.

 

Children driving motorbikes, with 2, 3 or more on the motorbike? Daily occurence?

 

Wearing of crash helmets on motorbikes or safety belts in cars?  Everyday occurence.

 

Driving whilst drunk? Very common , wear an amulet , and "I safe"!  This DOES happen.

 

Tailgating?  Seems to be a very common  thing.

 

U-turns?  Where does one start?!

 

Stopping at a red light?  Not foreverybody.

 

"Policing" of roads etc?  Very little, and not effective at all.

 

People sat in the back of pick ups?  Daily occurence.

 

Etc. Etc.

 

I could go on and on, but Ive got a dentist appointment soon!

 

Im in no way suggesting its an easy task to achieve ...........in any country.......in Thailand though....it will be a huge task to get the number of deaths on Thai roads down to an "acceptable" level.

 

In the U.K. for example...drink driving was much more common in the  60s and 70s....it took years and years of action, to get the drink driving level down...Thats just one factor.......Thailand has MANY factors to take into account....God help them..............They certainly need it....surely........ something has to be done to stop or at least lessen the number of crashes/deaths on the Thai roads?

 

Please pay attention while in the list, you also have the drivers going in emergency to the dentist ????????

[khunjeff]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The government, the private sector, military units, civic groups, local administrations, communities, villages, volunteers and members of the public will be involved in minimizing risk factors associated with road accidents, including people, vehicles, road conditions and the environment.

 

Or they could try having traffic police enforce traffic laws. Just a thought.

[jesimps]

16 hours ago, djayz said:

Reading through this and other similar threads, I often wonder if the locals are as critical, cynical and outraged as we are? 

Not my wife and daughter certainly. The normality of it is ingrained in them.

 

[djayz]

7 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Not my wife and daughter certainly. The normality of it is ingrained in them.

 

Good point. I often forget what's strange to us might be normal to them and vice versa. 

[tinca tinca]

20 hours ago, welshguy said:

Its quite sad really.

 

Thousands of lives are ruined each year on Thai roads.

 

Its going to take years and it will be a monumental task, to drastically reduce the number of road deathes/crashes in Thailand.

 

Training? Virtually non existent.

 

Road  "sense"? Virtually non existent

 

Driving dangerously overloaded? Happens all the time.

 

Children driving motorbikes, with 2, 3 or more on the motorbike? Daily occurence?

 

Wearing of crash helmets on motorbikes or safety belts in cars?  Everyday occurence.

 

Driving whilst drunk? Very common , wear an amulet , and "I safe"!  This DOES happen.

 

Tailgating?  Seems to be a very common  thing.

 

U-turns?  Where does one start?!

 

Stopping at a red light?  Not foreverybody.

 

"Policing" of roads etc?  Very little, and not effective at all.

 

People sat in the back of pick ups?  Daily occurence.

 

Etc. Etc.

 

I could go on and on, but Ive got a dentist appointment soon!

 

Im in no way suggesting its an easy task to achieve ...........in any country.......in Thailand though....it will be a huge task to get the number of deaths on Thai roads down to an "acceptable" level.

 

In the U.K. for example...drink driving was much more common in the  60s and 70s....it took years and years of action, to get the drink driving level down...Thats just one factor.......Thailand has MANY factors to take into account....God help them..............They certainly need it....surely........ something has to be done to stop or at least lessen the number of crashes/deaths on the Thai roads?

i am SURE you have forgotten some points.........!!!

[tinca tinca]

20 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Only 5% ??? Aiming high ....but I guess 5% would be better than they have achieved thus far.

five percent WILL not BE achieved NO WAY!!

[tomauasia]

Hilarious stuff.  The land of hubs and failed plans. They have trouble executing successful plans 

[tomauasia]

I've got a YouTube video. I want to post it please