Thai Govt Declares Success In Its 'Zero Songkran Holiday Death' Campaign

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DPM Yongyoot declares success in anti-road fatality campaign during Songkran holidays

BANGKOK, 21 April 2012 – The government has declared success in its “Zero Songkran Holiday Death” campaign.

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyoot Wichaidit said during the weekly “Yingluck Government Meets the People” program that the government regrets the loss of lives and the injuries suffered by the public during this year's Songkran holidays.

Mr. Yongyoot stated that both deaths and injuries seen in the past holiday are tragic and remain a lesson for those who live to remember.

However, the Deputy PM is pleased that the government-initiated campaign to rid the country of road fatalities during the Songkran holidays ended up with six provinces recording 'zero' death this year. They include Nakhon Phanom, Trat, Trang, Ranong, Pattani and Satun.

He added that, with more than 260 districts across the country reported no road accident at all, the campaign could be declared a success of a certain level.

-- NNT 2012-04-21

[HeavyDrinker]

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[kartman]

[davehowden]

Prat

[Mosha]

Time for another self back slapping party.

[thaikahuna]

What a crock of crap! How the hell can you call 320+ fatalities a success?

[varun]

Nope sorry, you crashed, burned and failed miserably.

[marioc]

More deaths than last year and he calls it a success?????????????????

I can't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NewlyMintedThai]

Whatever makes them feel good...

[whybother]

[MAJIC]

One mans success is another mans failure................dream on!

[bruceky]

someone should remind them, when it comes to fatalities, just because the number's bigger this year doesn't mean its better

[rheinwiese]

Well........speachless!

[rinteln]

Oh dear...................

[Buchholz]

Amazing Pheu Thai

[angiud]

Deny the evidence, is a classic of a dictatorship regime

[Jawnie]

Any statistics for how many drunk drivers were stopped, arrested, or otherwise taken off the roads during Songkran?

[Jawnie]

One mans success is another mans failure................dream on!

If you are still alive, that's a success. If you are dead, well, you failed.

[lannarebirth]

_{Reminiscent of Baghdad Bob and whoever's North Korea's rocket program press secretary.}

[jacko45k]

There were more road deaths than last year..........

And that is what he declares as a success.

There were also zero Songkran road deaths in Hong Kong,, I am sure they will be eternally grateful to the DPM there!

[phl]

HMmm, i am speechless and it never happens.

Just the other day, the death toll, according to some papers was higher then previous years, but its a success? because in some provinces there were no REPORTED deaths?!

I guess the great thing about every Thai government is that in every failed mission, they always find a positive

[finnomick1]

Of course it was a roaring success, no roads were killed over the Sonkran period at all !!!

[tukkytuktuk]

Now I'm ashamed to be pro pheu thai.

[pimay11]

Just another line of BS from these PTP idiots. Last year's flood control was a success, 1,000,000 tablets delivered to students by the beginning of the school year, there are no terrorists in Thailand, 300 Baht mimimum wage country wide immediately, food prices under control, it's not about Thaksin, on and on and on.

[Yunla]

PTP's blinkered & hollow statement today is a great insult to the many people who lost their lives on the roads this last week & to many others who are now spending their lives in disability from crashes. My prayers are with the injured & the families of those poor people.

[Honkytowner]

Living in Thailand is like being regaled by endless loops of the Goon Show and Monty Python. How can anyone possibly take anything from the mouth of an "authority" figure seriously?

[NewlyMintedThai]

_{Reminiscent of Baghdad Bob and whoever's North Korea's rocket program press secretary.}

Even the North Koreans admitted failure with the rocket launch!

[pimay11]

Now I'm ashamed to be pro pheu thai.

Glad to see you are finally waking up to these PTP misfits.

[ezzra]

Go tell it to dead people that another "success" like that and we are doomed indeed,

[uranuss]

Its a miracle