Fewer people die, injured in Thailand’s road accidents during holidays than past new year

[snoop1130]

 

Fewer people died and got injured in road accidents in Thailand during the recent New Year holidays than in the same period last year, with a total of 333 deaths and 2,672 injured people recorded in 2,707 separate accidents across Thailand during the one-week watch period from December 29th through January 4th, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

 

During the same week a year ago, 392 people died and 3,326 others were injured in 3,333 accidents across the country.

 

The three main causes of the accidents this past week were speeding (34.45%), cutting in front of other vehicles (25.36%) and drunk driving (21.05%).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/fewer-people-die-injured-in-thailands-road-accidents-during-holidays-than-past-new-year/

 

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[jvs]

33 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The three main causes of the accidents this past week were speeding (34.45%), cutting in front of other vehicles (25.36%) and drunk driving (21.05%).

Only 333 people died?Only?

Easily fixed these three major causes but that would require certain people to do

their job.

 

[overt2016]

What is there to rejoice about that?

It just proves that more needs to be done to prevent this needless loss of lives.

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[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Fewer people died and got injured in road accidents in Thailand during the recent New Year holidays than in the same period last year,

Hardly something to boast about.

[thaitom]

I thought i read here the other day that there was an increase of 66% from the previous year.

[mikebell]

A triumph for the police and their massive overtime payments for phone-staring.  Deaths down 15% = traffic down 15%.

[brianthainess]

39 minutes ago, thaitom said:

I thought i read here the other day that there was an increase of 66% from the previous year.

Yes I read that too, it seem to me that "This Year" doesn't include 24th to 31st Dec 21. 

427 deaths was what I found on google that's an average of 61 a day !  

[big dendrobenaes]

how can one die.......AND GET INJURED ??

 

 

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