Drunk, speeding drivers and motorcyclists without helmets target of new road safety campaign

[webfact]

 

By Online Reporter

 

The Governor of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Mr. Sathien Charoen Rian is implementing measures to improve road safety across the province.

 

As part of a new road safety campaign launched this week (Feb 24), law enforcement and relevant agencies have been told to strictly enforce traffic and road safety regulations throughout Prachuap Khiri Khan.

 

Particular focus will be put on those who drive while under the influence of alcohol, people driving beyond the speed limit and those riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

 

The governor also ordered the relevant agencies to upgrade the pedestrian crossings in all of the province’s eight districts, which includes Hua Hin.

 

Full story: https://www.huahintoday.com/hua-hin-news/drunk-speeding-drivers-and-motorcyclists-without-helmets-target-of-new-road-safety-campaign/

 

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[PoeDogg]

"New"?
Isn't this a policeman's daily job? 555, nevermind....TIT.

[Orinoco]

Quote

pedestrian crossings 

They have no meaning to most Thai's on the roads.

just one more red and white kill zone.

TIT.

 

[RandiRona]

Tea money campaign!!

[hellohello123]

What if the driver Is color blind?

[ikke1959]

30 years ago I was selling travels to Thailand and our advice than was that it was safer not to cross the street on a zebracrossing but somewhere else on the street in Thailand. Since then nothing has changed. Abd drunk drivers, speeding and no helmets should be a every day crackdown for everyone, not only a few days crackdown and than back to normal... Why can other countries manage it that motorcycle drivers wear helmets?? The next crackdown should be on the  prehistorical vehicles , that are driving in the middle of the road too slowly... That is very dangerous too

[bristolgeoff]

Bound to work for sure,the thais will obey for sure.drunk no problem no helmet and some speed.I  will get home no problem.

       One time in cnx a bar girl very drunk going home fell over.not going fast,no helmet.Saw her fall went to help her pick up the bike,said u ok.She was fine got back on her bike and drove off 5 mins later.This was about  2am and i,am sure she will follow these new rules

[KannikaP]

54 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

What if the driver Is color blind?

Then he/she should not have a licence to drive as it is part of the driving test!................oops, sorry, TIT.

[ezzra]

Yes this is definitely the  solution to stop all those horrible road accidents, paint more zebra crossings and specially in RED...

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

As part of a new road safety campaign launched this week (Feb 24),

Another campaign.... Jeeeez

[2long]

Nice photo.

How many civil servants does it take to watch a civil servant pretend to badly paint the road just for a photo? In kindergarten they were told not to paint outside the lines!

 

Imagine if a cop came around the corner too fast on an unregistered Ducati when they were all paying attention to this little show?

[Asquith Production]

3 hours ago, PoeDogg said:

"New"?
Isn't this a policeman's daily job? 555, nevermind....TIT.

No they have all become painters

[ChrisY1]

De ja vu......the never ending pretence of road safety! I guess there's a budget for that!

[Bundooman]

Hey Ho!

New crackdown.

Again.

and again.

And again.

and again.

and ............... Bla-de bla-de bla!

[DILLIGAD]

'drive while under the influence of alcohol, people driving beyond the speed limit and those riding a motorcycle without a helmet.'

 

Best check the Police force first!!!!

[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Particular focus will be put on those who drive while under the influence of alcohol, people driving beyond the speed limit and those riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Whosoever is under, beyond and without shall be focused upon, again!

[mrfill]

At least 5 people are expected to be prosecuted...

[swm59nj]

Enforcement should also include drivers going through red lights and not stopping for pedestrians at crosswalks. 
And I don’t mean just painting red marking across a road.

[Nkpjed]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Particular focus will be put on those who drive while under the influence of alcohol, people driving beyond the speed limit and those riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Isn’t this their job? If they were doing their job there wouldn’t have to be a particular focus on it. As always, this will change absolutely nothing.

[AhFarangJa]

3 hours ago, hellohello123 said:

What if the driver Is color blind?

If he or she is, then by the rules of Thailand they should not have a licence.........

[yeahbutif]

We need social media to take photo of police standing watching letting people go past then without be a helmet on or number plate..  sham and name into doing their job.. after all it is law dohhhh 

[ThaiFelix]

A few years back a young kid was killed on a local school crosswalk and their was a local campaign to pacify all the concerned parents.  At 2 oclock  in the afternoon a team was out repainting the crosswalk with the mayor addressing several TV camera crews.  An hour later they opened the road again and left.  By 5 o'clock the still wet crosswalk paint had gone again due to rush hour traffic.  I guess it would have been too hard to get the mayor out at 2 in the morning when traffic is light and the paint had time to dry.  Most importantly the light would have been too poor at that time for the mayors TV coverage!

[Humpy]

Who has ever seen a red and white zebra for crying out loud ? . Perhaps the crossings could called ' Southampton Football Shirt ' crossings... ????

[Will B Good]

A classic case if quality assurance versus inspection.

 

Best to get things right first time.....proper education, training and driving tests......stop people just buying licenses would be a good start.

[jaiyen]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

Yes this is definitely the  solution to stop all those horrible road accidents, paint more zebra crossings and specially in RED...

They are painting them red cos they will be easier to clean up !!

[actonion]

Looks like Emulsion paint, it will fade in a few weeks,  and Thais dont do maintenance

[digger70]

Hell yea ,it must be New because they haven't done Anything about it so far.

[Humpy]

No police to be seen as all the underage kids leave their school, three to a bike, no helmets , no licence and no insurance...... 

[bangon04]

In true Thai tradition... a senior official is inspired to tell the RTP that they should actually do their job for a while......to show how much they care.

[Chelseafan]

15 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Another campaign.... Jeeeez

 

Yep, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!