Starting January 9th, the Royal Thai Police and the Land Transport Department will enforce a demerit point system to curb traffic violations and dangerous driving, in the hope increasing drivers’ discipline on Thailand’s infamous roads.

 

Each driving license holder will be given 12 points and they will be deducted for each violation they are caught committing. Point deductions are divided into four levels, depending on the severity of the violation.

 

One point will be deducted for using a cell phone while driving, not wearing a crash helmet on a motorcycle, not fastening the seatbelt, exceeding the speed limit, riding motorcycles on the pavement, failing to stop for pedestrians at zebra crossings, not giving way to emergency vehicles, reckless driving, driving without a license plate or with the license plate covered and not showing road tax sign.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/point-system-to-curb-traffic-violations-to-be-enforced-from-january-9th/

 

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Great. 
i hope they can't do it to an international driving licence from abroad

And it will all be policed automatically... by networked CCTV.

 

You won't see any extra BiB out on the beat or in patrol cars.

And when them get to much points and lose the right to drive them will just keep driving like nothing happen.

Considering that half of the Thais drive without a license it's a joke

Anyone seen the movie DEATH RACE 2000. 

The Thai boy racers will treat this as  a competition to see who can get the most points!!! So someone gets killed , do a runner abroad and the cops don't care.

1 point? the scheme is totally pointless.

The one point is Okay .. as far as I can see. half the people should lose their licence in 24 hrs... Should make the roads less congested..

eager to see this planed mess happening ????

and no driverslicense??? no points to deduct ....It is not the system it is the enforcement of the laws.. Start with a working policeforce 24 hrs a day and not from 9 to 5. and everyone has to show a license a t a checkpoint and not only the tax sticker on the window..

why start on 9 January and not the 1st?? Oh I know the New Years holiday must be over otherwise too many drivers are losing points already

How many points for being distracted by a ghost?

Point Deduction on Bad Drivers to Start on Jan 9

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 1 (TNA) – Point deduction will start on Jan 9 next year on the drivers who violate traffic rules, said the national police chief.

 

Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, the national police chief, said each licensed driver would have 12 points. Point deduction will happen in two forms.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1068433

 

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Considering the amount of Thais carrying unlicensed guns, I really do not think driving when banned will effect them

12 hours ago, internationalism said:

Great. 
i hope they can't do it to an international driving licence from abroad

Nope, they are just going to cut it in half like a bad credit card.....

12 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Considering that half of the Thais drive without a license it's a joke

And the other half bought their licence and don't know the rules of the road.  

 

Children leave school every day all over Thailand on motorbikes 3 pax on each bike no crash helmet no licence. Oh my where to begin. 

 

This should be introduced on April 1?

If they are using CCTV evidence, how will they know who was driving the car? My wife drives my car. Her brother dives her car. My maid owns a pick-up and she doesn’t drive at all but her son in law drives it. And what about company owned vehicles?

 

A lot of people are going to say they lent the car to someone called Jiap who lives somewhere up country and they never knew his real name.

I thought it was three months from September. That means starting from yesterday. In any case, the traffic laws and their enforcers get another 5 weeks holiday from doing their job.

 

The whole thing is a joke (but I am not laughing). Points will only be deducted if one has a licence and if they are caught. 

 

The 365 dangerous days is the default position. 

16 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

If they are using CCTV evidence, how will they know who was driving the car? My wife drives my car. Her brother dives her car. My maid owns a pick-up and she doesn’t drive at all but her son in law drives it. And what about company owned vehicles?

 

A lot of people are going to say they lent the car to someone called Jiap who lives somewhere up country and they never knew his real name.

The vehicle owner is responsible for all infringements in such cases.... although I have no issue wrt fines in that case, it is unfair in the case of penalty points... ie only direct convictions. A pity, will never happen as police would have to work harder. 

Good morning ???? 

 

Now that’s FUNNY !!!
Does this include enforcing more then

2 people on a motorcycle ? Or Wearing Helmets ? Or Enforcing no more people in the back of open pickup trucks ? Thus far that’s all A BIG !! FAILURE THAILAND !! 

Another cart in front of the horse.  Without enforcement, totally ineffective.  Pass the brown envelope please.....

Another pointless rule that will not affect anything. 

Enforced 1 day, just like the baby seat and seat belt. 

Then when stop how are they going to verified,  will they all be carrying calculators. 

3 points for DUI. Great! I can get busted 3 times in 12 months driving on the turps before losing my ticket. What a time to be alive 

Thailand must have a ministry of silly talk..

They waffle all this stuff out and rarely do anything about it.

 

Basically you need a licence or registered vehicle to accrue  points. 

5 minutes ago, MadMuhammad said:

3 points for DUI. Great! I can get busted 3 times in 12 months driving on the turps before losing my ticket. What a time to be alive 

Plus they say once you have been done for an offence,  you can't be done for that offence again that day!!

 

How can that be so?

One point will be deducted for using a cell phone while driving, not wearing a crash helmet on a motorcycle, not fastening the seatbelt, exceeding the speed limit, riding motorcycles on the pavement, failing to stop for pedestrians at zebra crossings, not giving way to emergency vehicles, reckless driving, driving without a license plate or with the license plate covered and not showing road tax sign.

 

So basically you get 12 attempts before you lose the licence 

 

(If you have one to start with)

14 hours ago, engamann said:

And when them get to much points and lose the right to drive them will just keep driving like nothing happen.

You still need to get to work to pay the fines.  

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/point-system-to-curb-traffic-violations-to-be-enforced-from-january-9th/

Eye wash. Just take the cars, trucks and motor bikes out of their hands.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, the national police chief, said each licensed driver would have 12 points.

There we have it straight from the top.................This only applies to people with a licence......