Police warn dangerous drivers at checkpoint will be fined

[webfact]

Police warn dangerous drivers at checkpoint will be fined

 

Police have defended heightened checks and cracking down on moving violations at the Phuket Check Point. Photo: Phuket Provincial Police

 

PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Police have issued a warning that people driving dangerously through Phuket Check Point following alarm raised through posts on social media that police at the checkpoint were on the lookout to make arrests.

 

 

Phuket Provincial Police yesterday identified one Thai news report announcing that officers at the Tha Chatchai Police had received the official order 148/2564, “Re: Assigning duties to the Crime Suppression Division on October 12, 2021 by allowing the police officers working in traffic to issue a ticket to the offender in the specified amount.”

 

“Phuket Provincial Police would like to clarify that traffic discipline to reduce accidents is an important policy of the state in solving the problem of reducing the loss of life, body and property of the people as a whole,” the Provincial Police said in its response posted online.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/police-warn-dangerous-drivers-at-checkpoint-will-be-fined-81737.php

 

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[Doctor Tom]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

traffic discipline to reduce accidents is an important policy of the state in solving the problem of reducing the loss of life, body and property of the people as a whole,”

Really?  It doesn't show and it isn't working. 

[sniggie]

Really?  How can you drive dangerously at a checkpoint? The vehicles are stationary (or virtually so).

 

As has been said countless times before by multitudinous posters the way to catch dangerous drivers is for the police to get their backsides into patrol cars and watch what goes on away from a useless checkpoint. But that will never happen. Checkpoints = easy money.   

[JustAnotherHun]

11 minutes ago, sniggie said:

Really?  How can you drive dangerously at a checkpoint?

Thai drivers will find a way to do so ????

[IvorBiggun2]

11 minutes ago, sniggie said:

How can you drive dangerously at a checkpoint?

By going too fast. Not all cars are stopped at checkpoints/roadblocks.

[Andre0720]

4 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

By going too fast. Not all cars are stopped at checkpoints/roadblocks.

Killing someone on the road, might be a proof that someone was going too fast., Maybe, because one could argue that it is all a big misunderstanding, or that this someone was in a hurry, or...

But going too fast at a checkpoint, get real....

[Aussieroaming]

RTP - Do your job properly and crackdown on dangerous driving everywhere that it occurs. Bad road behaviour won't change until consistent application of the laws is enforced. 

 

 

[Deerculler]

How do they work out that a driver is driving dangerously at a check point?

[IvorBiggun2]

7 minutes ago, Deerculler said:

How do they work out that a driver is driving dangerously at a check point?

Can only be 'speed'.

 

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“Slow down a bit, many lives are saved. generosity with traffic discipline,” said the statement, signed off as, “With concern from the spokesperson team of Phuket Province”.

 

Edited October 19, 2021 by IvorBiggun2

[IvorBiggun2]

13 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

But going too fast at a checkpoint, get real....

Get real yerself.

 

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“Slow down a bit, many lives are saved. generosity with traffic discipline,” said the statement, signed off as, “With concern from the spokesperson team of Phuket Province”.

 

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In the past, there have been frequent accidents in the area of Tha Chatchai Police Station. This is partly due to speeding

 

Edited October 19, 2021 by IvorBiggun2

[Almer]

35 minutes ago, Deerculler said:

How do they work out that a driver is driving dangerously at a check point?

Easy, by how fat his wallet is.

[Seeall]

19 hours ago, sniggie said:

Really?  How can you drive dangerously at a checkpoint? The vehicles are stationary (or virtually so).

 

As has been said countless times before by multitudinous posters the way to catch dangerous drivers is for the police to get their backsides into patrol cars and watch what goes on away from a useless checkpoint. But that will never happen. Checkpoints = easy money.   

really?   its a checvkpoint.. all drive slow... whats thins?   some dream or what?   just shows news is full of <deleted> as usual

[Doctor Tom]

2 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

RTP - Do your job properly and crackdown on dangerous driving everywhere that it occurs. Bad road behaviour won't change until consistent application of the laws is enforced. 

 

 

The Thais could start by proper driver training in the first place. Their 'instructors' clearly don't know what they are doing. You only have to watch the total confusion and indecision at the two roundabouts near me to see that as a fact. 

[IvorBiggun2]

10 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

You only have to watch the total confusion and indecision at the two roundabouts near me to see that as a fact. 

So much so that near to the Uni in Buriram they took the bloody things out and installed traffic lights. But do they adhere to the lights? 

[Doctor Tom]

1 minute ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

So much so that near to the Uni in Buriram they took the bloody things out and installed traffic lights. But do they adhere to the lights? 

Always the same with traffic managers, if in doubt, put in a set of traffic lights.  All they do is make up for <deleted> poor driving 

[beechbum]

What a novel idea, cops handing out tickets for dangerous driving.