Anutin Launches Road Safety Campaign for New Year Holidays

[webfact]

 

by Naark Rojanasuvan

 

The Center for the Prevention and Reduction of Road Accidents has been launched to enhance road safety during the 2024 New Year holiday season. 

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul inaugurated the center, emphasizing the collaborative effort among multiple ministries, private organizations, and provincial authorities.

 

This year, the traditional "seven dangerous days" road safety campaign has been extended to "ten dangerous days," running through January 5th.

 

Authorities are urging the public to follow safety guidelines, including avoiding driving under the influence, taking regular breaks on long trips, and refraining from driving while fatigued.

 

Law enforcement agencies have been instructed to strictly enforce traffic laws to promote responsible behavior among road users.

The Ministry of Public Health is preparing emergency medical teams, surgical units, and trauma response capabilities to ensure swift assistance for accident victims.

 

These measures aim to minimize fatalities during the peak travel period, with collaboration among all stakeholders critical to the campaign’s success.

 

Addressing public concerns over bus safety following recent incidents, Anutin attributed these cases to legal violations and negligence.

 

He outlined accountability measures under the Land Traffic Transport Act, targeting drivers, vehicle owners, and transport companies to ensure strict adherence to safety standards.

 

The government remains committed to reducing road accidents and fatalities through public education, rigorous law enforcement, and enhanced emergency response readiness. These efforts are designed to ensure safer travel for all during the holiday season.

 

Source: National News Bureau of Thailand

 

-- 2024-12-28

 

 

[Nigeone]

If it’s run any better than previous years I’ll be surprised. Be the usual high death count and tbh until they sort the policing and driving tests out it’s always going to be unsuccessful. What a waste of life this is always. 

[AhFarangJa]

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

The government remains committed to reducing road accidents and fatalities through public education, rigorous law enforcement,

Sadly, not much hope of improvement then.

 

[bokningar]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

Law enforcement agencies have been instructed to strictly enforce traffic laws to promote responsible behavior among road users.

Believe it when I see it

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[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

This year, the traditional "seven dangerous days" road safety campaign has been extended to "ten dangerous days," running through January 5th.

It would also be interesting if they extended the period to 365 days 

[quake]

Most Thai's see nothing wrong with getting completely blasted on booze and getting in the pick up / car or on a motor bike and driving home.

It's the norm here.

It will never change, they are to selfish. with regard to road use. 

 

 

 

 

[Captain Flack]

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[mdr224]

9 minutes ago, quake said:

Most Thai's see nothing wrong with getting completely blasted on booze and getting in the pick up / car or on a motor bike and driving home.

It's the norm here.

It will never change, they are to selfish. with regard to road use. 

 

 

 

 

Even without alcohol, they are just not skilled at it. Thai people and high speed vehicles dont mix. My firsthand experience is that highways are a free for all

[quake]

5 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

Even without alcohol, they are just not skilled at it. Thai people and high speed vehicles dont mix. My firsthand experience is that highways are a free for all

 

Yes, we just need to be on high alert at all times, on the roads here.

You just can't drop your guard for one second.

[BarBoy]

what about sidewalk safety?

[spidermike007]

One of the most useless, one of the most toxic, and one of the least competent men to ever pretend to be a leader in this nation, is leading a road safety campaign.

 

I guess that's really all we need to know about the fact that lives are not going to be saved during the holidays and about how utterly insincere the authorities are about traffic and public safety. 

 

I have a novel idea, how about getting the highway patrol to actually patrol the highways, under threat of severe penalty. 

[kingstonkid]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

by Naark Rojanasuvan

 

The Center for the Prevention and Reduction of Road Accidents has been launched to enhance road safety during the 2024 New Year holiday season. 

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul inaugurated the center, emphasizing the collaborative effort among multiple ministries, private organizations, and provincial authorities.

 

This year, the traditional "seven dangerous days" road safety campaign has been extended to "ten dangerous days," running through January 5th.

 

Authorities are urging the public to follow safety guidelines, including avoiding driving under the influence, taking regular breaks on long trips, and refraining from driving while fatigued.

 

Law enforcement agencies have been instructed to strictly enforce traffic laws to promote responsible behavior among road users.

The Ministry of Public Health is preparing emergency medical teams, surgical units, and trauma response capabilities to ensure swift assistance for accident victims.

 

These measures aim to minimize fatalities during the peak travel period, with collaboration among all stakeholders critical to the campaign’s success.

 

Addressing public concerns over bus safety following recent incidents, Anutin attributed these cases to legal violations and negligence.

 

He outlined accountability measures under the Land Traffic Transport Act, targeting drivers, vehicle owners, and transport companies to ensure strict adherence to safety standards.

 

The government remains committed to reducing road accidents and fatalities through public education, rigorous law enforcement, and enhanced emergency response readiness. These efforts are designed to ensure safer travel for all during the holiday season.

 

Source: National News Bureau of Thailand

 

-- 2024-12-28

 

 

 

Isn't this the same thing they stated last year.  I think they take it out change the dates and republish

[kingstonkid]

33 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

One of the most useless, one of the most toxic, and one of the least competent men to ever pretend to be a leader in this nation, is leading a road safety campaign.

 

I guess that's really all we need to know about the fact that lives are not going to be saved during the holidays and about how utterly insincere the authorities are about traffic and public safety. 

 

I have a novel idea, how about getting the highway patrol to actually patrol the highways, under threat of severe penalty. 

 

Just think, when they get rid of D O T, he will be the next Prime Minister of Thailand.

 

 

[petedk]

Just saw some drunken people finishing their drinks 7 am this morning and then jumping into the cars to drive home. I won't mention whet their jobs were!

[Will B Good]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

This year, the traditional "seven dangerous days" road safety campaign has been extended to "ten dangerous days,"

 

That will mean even more people will die......mental.......should have changed it to "five dangerous days"......and halve the number of deaths..

[ikke1959]

He opened the drawer and found the same book as last years and now he is pretending it will be better and safer, and next week the book disappears again in the drawer

[bkk6060]

I wonder how many stoned drivers will be injured or kill people?  Will the weed czar of Thailand feel bad or apologize?

Bottom line I suggest just stay home or near home.  Even getting on a taxi could be the end.

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The Center for the Prevention and Reduction of Road Accidents has been launched to enhance road safety during the 2024 New Year holiday season. 

Has anything been achieved over the last decades or done anything positive.

Or do we get this same campaign every year end.

[Sydebolle]

Who is the one to tell this masterpiece of a sunshine boy that law enforcement is all which is needed. Get drunk drivers off the road, fine them with 5-digit fees, impound the vehicle on site and release it a month later against a towing fee of 5,000 Baht. Simultaneously provide a bus service from the check point to the next bus or railway station and get the drunk diver and 24 of his friends and relatives in the back of his pick-up to walk the walk.

Simple as that ........ seriously! 

[trainman34014]

The only thing that will sort Thai Drivers out is Mass Lobotomy....all else has failed !

[ChrisKC]

"The Center for the Prevention and Reduction of Road Accidents has...   (I didn't even realise this Office existed) ... done little or nothing in the last twenty years that I have observed as having prevented anything from real action or meaningful law enforcement, apart from a few purges here and there.

 

Another function it could include is a Department of "Attitude Adjustment" - which is the greatest actual problem of Thai driving culture!

 

I think most drivers have a brain but they don't know where it is!

 

[ozz1]

Yes I can see the police sitting in their tents playing on their phones watching the speeding drivers pass it's all talk no action

[Gobbler]

What's worse? The road safety nonsense or blaming the Mitsubishi buses for the PM 2.5 pollution? 

[rudi49jr]

Always the same cr@p around Christmas and New Year’s, Songkran and such: let’s make traffic safer around the holidays! 
Why not make traffic safer year-round? Why not give every traffic cop a kick up the @ss and tell them they will be fired if they don’t start doing their actual jobs? It’s not rocket science, is it? So many people in Thailand die every year in traffic because the government/cops can’t be bothered to protect them, it’s just a huge disgrace.