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Thailand tackles delivery rider accidents with defensive driving training


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2 hours ago, stix40 said:

This is Thailand 

It is what it is !

Makes my day watching the crazy life here .

Love it .

Yep! But my prediction? You will eventually tire of it!!

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Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, webfact said:

Last year, a total of 81 delivery riders suffered road accidents in Thailand, leading to 28 fatalities and 36 severe injuries.

In a country with a WHO Estimate of 25,000 road deaths per year, 80% of which are motorcyclists..

 

That puts delivery riders at 0.14% of road fatalities...   potentially placing them in the safest demographic !!! (although I suspect the stats provided in the article are flawed).

 

Nevertheless, this gives us readers an opportinity to have a bash... after all, just like Fortuner drivers, delivery motorcyclists with big boxes on the back of their bikes are immediately identifiable and any mistake they make immediately fills our conformation bias with affirmation that all delivery riders are lunatics. 

 

In reality - how many of our deliveries are 'late' because the rider has had an accident ??...  we have numerous deliveries per day, none of which have been late (that I ever recall).

 

The reality is that delivery riders ride like most other motorcyclists here... we just don't notice the 'others' as readily as there are more difficult to 'pigeon hole' and group into a demographic we can easily criticise. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted
Just now, Tanlic said:

as long as their earnings are dependent on how many deliveries they do in a day and tips there is no way anything will change

It's perhaps less about that and more about effective enforcement of existing traffic laws. 

 

But, as mentioned above, if there are only 81 accidents in a year involving delivery riders, there is hardly any cause for concern whatsoever. 

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