Latest accident stats: 21 dead Saturday as drunk driver kills road worker

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Daily News continued their campaign to raise awareness about the appalling carnage on Thailand's deadly roads.

 

They reported that 21 people died in accidents on Saturday cautioning that the figure was low because agencies do not report death much at the weekend preferring to wait until Monday or Tuesday.

 

This brought the January fatality figures so far to 1,126 at the scene deaths. This compares to 1,134 in the same 29 days last year.

 

ASEAN NOW cautions that in reality the figures are much higher when deaths at or on the way to hospitals are added to the toll.

 

 

In the latest terrible accident an innocent road surfacing worker called Ekachai, 33, was killed by a 22 year old man in a Land Rover on the expressway in Klong Toei, Bangkok. 

 

The young driver reeked of alcohol, said the media. 

 

This story is reported by ASEAN NOW elsewhere this morning. 

 

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[hotchilli]

They have the usual knee-jerk reactions at certain times of the year then back to normal.

[Aussieroaming]

RIP road worker, I hope your family get some justice. I suspect not though, given that the drunken vehicular homicidal killer is another connected snotbag.

[Pique Dard]

this makes me to think as i previously wrote that pedestrians are becoming more and more endangered spieces, so in order to survive they've got to buy and drive cars!