317 die, 2,437 injured on Thai roads during 7-day New Year holiday

[webfact]

 

A total of 317 people were killed and 2,437 others injured in 2,440 road accidents across Thailand between December 29th and January 4th, according to statistics provided by the Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and related agencies.

 

On the last day of the New Year holidays on Wednesday, 25 people died and 253 others were injured in 241 road accidents.

 

34.85% of the accidents were caused by speeding and 80.24% involved motorcycles. 24.48% were the result of cutting in front of another vehicle at speed.

 

85.06% of the accidents occurred on straight roads, 48.96% occurred on local and rural roads. Most of the accidents took place between 4pm and 5pm.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/317-die-2437-injured-on-thai-roads-during-7-day-new-year-holiday/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-01-06

 

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[mikebell]

So only 45 a day dead!  A triumph for RTP's overtime bill.

[petermik]

Pity they don`t issue figures for the number of motorcyclists killed while not wearing helmets......

[AhFarangJa]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

85.06% of the accidents occurred on straight roads

Now that is scary.....

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

Now that is scary.....

Overtaking opportunities I suspect!

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

12 hours ago, webfact said:

85.06% of the accidents occurred on straight roads

Now that is scary.....

I live on one of those, and in the 10 years I've been here there have been at least 20 accidents within 300 metres involving death, amputation, lorries on their side or in the ditch, and a car flying through the top of a tree (Thai drivers can defy physics).

[NoshowJones]

6 hours ago, petermik said:

Pity they don`t issue figures for the number of motorcyclists killed while not wearing helmets......

or underage riders given the keys of the bike by their parents.

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Overtaking opportunities I suspect!

Or people coming from side lanes on to the main road without looking.

[RichardColeman]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

85.06% of the accidents occurred on straight roads

Can't really help this idiotic people that nearly all die on STRAIGHT roads

[kwilco]

On 1/6/2023 at 2:31 AM, petermik said:

Pity they don`t issue figures for the number of motorcyclists killed while not wearing helmets......

  

Actually they just don't release comprehensive figures. ... but if you dig around, you will find figures relating to crash helmets but they don't deal with relative severity of injury.

The system for gathering statistics on RTIs was only started in 2019 and it looks like it was compiled by a 12 year old.

 

The Police are only one of the organisations that gather stats and the ones they release now only give the vaguest idea of what is really going on.

We can be fairly sure that "vulnerable" road users account for about 80% of deaths and motorcyclists about 75% of deaths.

 

The number of injured is internationally recorded in 2 categories - minor, serious and fatal - as yet Thailand's efforts to do this are vestigial.

 

The last couple of years also has to take into account the effect of Covid and the almost total lack of foreign visitors. There is no reliable source for counting those numbers.

This yea we know that tourist arrivals are about a quarter of that in a "normal" year. In some parts of the country they may make up a sizeable amount of the casualties and fatalities..

 

Some perceptions gathered over the years about the "7 deadly day" - is that in general the death rate is usually slightly LOWER that the national daily average. This is more likely due to the absence of commercial traffic rather than any police campaigns.

 

Another thing is that the number of collisions over this period in about the that same as in the UK - yet deaths there are about one twelfth of the Thai rate. This is probably due to the driving environment in Thailand and the extremely poor emergency services..

 

Successive Thai governments have failed even to acknowledge the causes of the dreadful state of road safety in the nation and so  making any progress at all over the past 3 decades has failed because it hasn't even started

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by kwilco

[metisdead]

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[Elkski]

How does this compare to 2019 or if a more recent year wasn't changed by COVID.