Road Accidents Kill 314 Persons In First Six Days Of 'Seven Dangerous Days'

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Road accidents kill 314 persons in first six days of 'Seven Dangerous Days'

BANGKOK, Jan 4 – Thailand’s death toll from road accidents nationwide during the New Year's celebration period has risen to 314, with 3,116 injured in 2,856 road accidents in the first six days of the “seven high risk travel days” during the New Year holiday season, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

Pol Gen Boriharn Siang-arom, an assistant to the national police chief for the agency’s Road Safety Centre told a press conference that on Tuesday alone, there were 312 accidents with 32 fatalities and 333 injuries. He said most of the accidents were caused by drunk driving, followed by speeding.

Most accidents involved motorcycles and mainly occurred in late afternoon and early evening, from 4-8 pm.

Most victims, whether fatalities or injured, were of working age. Most deaths --four-- were reported in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom and most accidents of 18 occurred in Chiang Mai.

The cumulative number of road accidents from Dec 29 to Jan 3 was 2,856, a decrease by 371 from last year accident while the total number of deaths--314--increased by 11 with total injuries dropping by 337 to 3,116 year-on-year. The most fatalities--18-- were recorded in the northeastern province Buri Ram and the highest number of accidents occurred in Nakhon Sawan with 104, along with highest number of injuries at 110.

Ten provinces reported no fatalities--Satun, Nonthaburi, Nong Khai, Udon Thani, Si Sa Ket, Yala, Trat, Sukhothai, Tak and Pattani.

The government launched its “Seven High Risk Travel Days” campaign from Dec 29-Jan 4 in a bid to reduce road accidents over the long holiday. The campaign is aimed at cutting casualties among New Year revellers. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-01-04

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ROAD SAFETY

New Year road toll rises to 314

The Nation

The first six of the New Year Festival's seven dangerous days saw 314 people killed and 3,116 others injured in 2,856 road accidents, the Road Safety Centre announced Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the sixth day of the sevenday period for monitoring road accidents, 312 accidents occurred, killing 32 people and injuring 333 others.

Pol Lt Gen Boriharn Siangarom, assistant police commissionergeneral, told a press conference that so far only 10 provinces had no road death toll. They are Satun, Nonthaburi, Nong Khai, Udon Thani, Si Sa Ket, Yala, Trat, Sukhothai, Tak and Pattani.

Boriharn said the statistics of road accidents on the sixth day showed an improvement over the same period last year.

He said the number of road accidents dropped by 9.83 per cent or 34 accidents from last year and the number of victims killed dropped by 12 people or 27.27 per cent while the number of injuries dropped by 29 people or 8.01 per cent.

Borihan said most (28.21) per cent of the accidents were caused by drunk driving, followed by speeding limit violations (20.51 per cent).

Most of the vehicles involved in accidents were motorcycles, Borihan said, adding that 78.70 per cent of the accidents involved motorcycles.

He said Nakhon Phanom saw the highest death toll with four victims and Chiang Mai had the highest number of injuries with 22 victims.

-- The Nation 2012-01-04

[landofidiots]

checkpoints that everyone knows about and how to avoid don't work so how about doing some actual work and PATROL ah yes police patrol where they drive around LOOKING for violators and PULL THEM OVER wow what a concept. Sitting around under a tent with your buddies is hardly police work it's just idiotic.

[geriatrickid]

6 days-314 falalities-3116 injuries. A far greater rate of death and injury than from the floods. Yet, no outrage from the TVF negative contingent. Curious.