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Govt launches new drink-driving campaign

BANGKOK: -- The government is rushing out a new phase of its anti drink-driving campaign before the traditional Songkran New Year festival next month in the hope that threats of having to undergo probation and community services will deter motorists from drinking.

A collaborative effort between the Department of Probation, the Thai Health Office and the traffic police, the campaign will see its official launch tomorrow with a series of television adverts which will emphasize the penalties for motorists who persist with drink-driving.

The adverts will also feature former drink-drivers who have been forced to collect the bodies of drink-driving victims and to undertake ambulance work as part of their community services.

Dr. Kittipong Kittiyarak, the Director-General of the Department of Probation, said today that efforts to force drink drivers into community services last year had proved successful, but that this year the department would introduce even stricter community service measures for offenders.

The 'D-Day' for the campaign has been set as 4 April, in time for the forthcoming Songkran festival which traditionally claims scores of lives on the nation's roads.

Dr. Kittipong said that the department would also campaign vigorously in the periods prior to the beginning of the Buddhist Lent and New Year.

--TNA 2005-03-09

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