93 Dead, 575 Injured in Two Days of New Year Road Crashes

[black tabby12345]

In Thailand, festive seasons often come with more funerals.

Songkran road toll alone, 480 this year.

Still, better than in 2018(679)...

 

Thailand: deaths by road accidents during Songkran 2024 | Statista

 

[OneMoreFarang]

Why do people pretend those days are something special?

 

14,737 lives lost on Thai roads in 2022

 

 

[spidermike007]

If they could figure out how to get the lazy, listless, indifferent and spectacularly incompetent Highway Patrol to actually patrol the highways, assuring that people are not driving recklessly, pulling over and give large fines to people who are making reckless and foolish moves on the highway, this could dramatically reduce fatalities.

 

But since the highway patrol utterly refuses to do their job there is absolutely no deterrent here, and alot of people drive like absolute fools. 

[oustaristocrats]

4 hours ago, quake said:

 

All very true.

and if all you said was done.

They would just carry on same as before. Got the license, got the insurance. job done.

Carry on regardless.

It's mostly an attitude problem here.

They know when they are doing bad stuff on the roads, they just don't care, to selfish, to stupid, to fast.

How do you cure that. Maybe hit them with they big money stick. ?

The Thai's need to change on many issues, but most just don't care.

T.I.T

 

 

 

 

Driving around here about 10 years, in 80% of speeding cases, it are these lowered pickups or pimped cars with spoilers all around, both sides flash lights, overtaking on the far left lane with 120-150, then suddenly moving the most right lane when they see lorries blocking them the F1 speeds in 90% of these lowered speeding pickups it is about a race, so if you've seen one passing, don't think you're safe, very likely another lunatic is coming. 

What I want to say is, checkpoints or other means should be a very easy job, because you have a very designated target group, you pick them out from far away, very visible, and when they start to speak, you are even 100% sure.

[digger70]

Nothing special about that now isn't it. Pretty Low Numbers.

 

The average number of people killed in road accidents in Thailand each day is between 50 and 62, depending on the source: 

World Health Organization (WHO)

The WHO estimates that around 60 people die in road accidents in Thailand each day. Thailand ranks ninth out of 175 WHO member countries for road traffic deaths. 

[SS1]

I've never understood how they can determine speed as the main cause of the accidents. I mean how is it possible? Are these all cases where someone e.g. just loses control of the vehicle and flies off the road in a curve, or similar? 

 

And poor visibility.. that's a new one. Foggy day?

[Dexxter]

If this many people died on the road in two days in Australia, the speed limit on major highways would be reduced o 30kph to "keep people safe".

[Confuscious]

Anutin plans seems to work well.
No problem.

[Gknrd]

When I was living there holidays in Thailand were the days I hibernated. The truck stayed parked.

[still kicking]

8 hours ago, Dexxter said:

If this many people died on the road in two days in Australia, the speed limit on major highways would be reduced o 30kph to "keep people safe".

Yes I am in OZ right now they introduced smart cameras which detects if you using your phone whilst driving, recording your speed and picture of your face.

[mikebell]

The 3rd day of police overtime now stands at 143 deaths and 841 injuries (some grievous and life-changing.)  Again the principle cause was speeding.  Given the number of CCTV cameras locally (Pattaya) this offence should be the easiest to eradicate IF they are consulted BEFORE an incident; IF RTP worked more than the fourteen dangerous days in a year.

[OldmanJ]

Why doesn't the government employee people to look after all these speeding drunken road abuses and have a points system.No points left no license and no car,simple.In the west we call them police officers. 

[FolkGuitar]

Once the holiday is over, where do all those cops who were manning the roadblocks go?

You never see them on the streets, only at the roadblocks. They must have some tasks to keep them busy, other than stopping bad drivers.  We occasionally see a few high-ranking police making a photo-op tour of walking streets, but that's about it. Maybe one or two making rounds of guesthouses to check names and data of the last night's check-in.
Where are they and what are they doing the rest of the day? We never see them!

[Purdey]

Wish they would compare with statistics for the last three years on a daily basis. Then we would know if it is getting better or worse. It might help if people knew how many died from injuries later. 

Making the driving test harder would just result in more envelopes passed to the examiner. 

Sad.