New year sees considerable drop in road accidents across Thailand

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The new year holiday period witnessed a significant drop in road accidents, with 212 fatalities and 1,860 injuries, according to statistics from the Department of Land Transport. The figures indicate a considerable decrease from the previous year, with the death toll and injury count originating from 1,839 traffic mishaps that occurred from December 29 to January 2.

 

Among the provinces, Bangkok reported the highest number of deaths, recording 15 fatalities, while Kanchanaburi province bore the brunt of most accidents, with 69 incidents and the highest number of injured individuals, tallying up to 73.

 

According to the Royal Thai Police Office, there has been a significant drop in comparison to last year’s figures. Notably, the number of fatalities fell by 23.19%, injuries decreased by 3.43%, and the overall accident count declined by 6.17%, reported Bangkok Post.

Speeding was identified as the main culprit in these accidents, accounting for a substantial 40.60% of the total. Other major causes included drivers cutting into lanes, which contributed to 23.31% of accidents, and drunk driving, responsible for 14.29% of the incidents.

 

by Mitch Connor

Picture courtesy of Prasit Tangprasert

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2024-01-04

 

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[retarius]

I don't trust the statistics. Like in most places they are massaged too reflect will on the leadership.

[jacko45k]

Well I guess I need to eat crow as I was certainly not expecting that......

[Dmaxdan]

42 minutes ago, retarius said:

I don't trust the statistics. Like in most places they are massaged too reflect will on the leadership.

Just remember that they only include those who die at the scene of the crash in these figures.

The real number of deaths could be double that if they included those who succumb to their injuries in hospital.

[WHansen]

Describing deaths and injuries as "traffic mishaps" speaks volumes

[Will B Good]

14 minutes ago, WHansen said:

Describing deaths and injuries as "traffic mishaps" speaks volumes

Life is cheap here....no one cares.....if you could level an accusation at the politicians here then they would be accused of seriously lacking in empathy.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Life is cheap here....no one cares.....if you could level an accusation at the politicians here then they would be accused of seriously lacking in empathy.

History has shown that trying to stop Thais from killing themselves by all manner of means is a waste of time.

Let them do as they wish... just take care of yourself.

[ikke1959]

Of course ... How could anything fail here in Thailand? just manipulate the numbers and everything looks fine... Many tourist with huge spendings, less traffic accidents , injured and deaths, as we only count them who died instantly, later on the way to the hospital or in the hospital we don't count anymore.. We order not count every accident in every province and see... It works

[parallelman]

According the figures given by by GT-Rider last year fatalities were 317, so that 212 is almost a drop of ¹/₃ 

[brianthainess]

So 21 less deaths 2 a day wow how impressed we are. Now the accident hospital death toll please.

[PremiumLane]

10 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Just remember that they only include those who die at the scene of the crash in these figures.

The real number of deaths could be double that if they included those who succumb to their injuries in hospital.

 

Which is what they do every year, right? So, if they are counting them the same each year, then there could have been a drop.  And I see this claim been said on here, anyone got any evidence for it?