Two Dead In Phuket On First Day Of New Year Road-Safety Blitz

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Two dead in Phuket on first day of new year road-safety blitz

Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- Two people have died on Phuket’s roads within the first 24 hours of the annual Seven Days of Danger new year road-safety campaign, according to the official Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket branch (DDPM-Phuket) statistics issued today.

Yuthapong Taempetch, 37, died after the motorbike he was riding and a pickup truck collided on Kwang Road (see map) in Wichit at 4pm yesterday.

Less than an hour later, Supansa Khamlungtawee, 25, died after the motorbike she was riding and a six-wheeled truck collided in front of a pineapple plantation on Thepkrasattri Road in Moo 9 Tambon Thepkrasattri.

Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut, on Tuesday, announced that the goal for this year’s campaign was zero deaths.

The DDPM-Phuket, the central office for receiving reports of all accidents, deaths and injuries in Phuket during the seven-day campaign, reported eight accidents so far this holiday period.

Speeding and drivers “cutting in front” of other motorists were listed as the causes of seven of the eight accidents, in which seven people were injured: four in Phuket City, two in Kathu (including Patong) and one in Thalang.

Of those injured were three men and four women; comprising four Thais and three foreigners.

The Phuket Gazette notes that the statics appear to not yet include the Kathu lorry accident yesterday, among other accidents.

The first casualty recorded under the campaign was a 33-year-old woman who crashed her motorbike at high speed on Sakdidet Road in Phuket Town at about 7am yesterday.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...litz-19826.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-12-28

[JetsetBkk]

Yuthapong Taempetch, 37

Supansa Khamlungtawee, 25

You will not be the last.

RIP.

[Valentine]

Yuthapong Taempetch, 37

Supansa Khamlungtawee, 25

You will not be the last.

RIP.

There really needs to be a tectonic shift in the mindset of drivers & riders here before we will see any improvement & less tragedies. That & proper enforcement by police.

[IrishIvan]

It would be good to see trucks off the road during peak periods.

[Semper]

It would be good to see trucks off the road during peak periods.

But then people would start to complain over empty shelves of Pepsi Max or Diet Coke in supermarkets.

[Lite Beer]

Day two of Seven Days of Danger witnesses another road-death

Phuket Gazette -

PHUKET: Phuket’s road-death toll increased by one as the second day of the “Seven Days of Danger” came to a close at midnight on Friday, according to the official Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket branch (DDPM-Phuket) statistics.

The death toll increased after a family riding a motorbike southbound on Thepkrasattri Road near the Thalang Tesco Lotus was hit from behind, reported the DDPM-Phuket.

The motorbike driver lost control after being hit and then crashed. The driver of the unidentified car fled the scene.

The mother, Tongdech Kamhom, 40, died in the crash.

Her husband, who was reported as drunk driving by the DDPM-Phuket, seemed not to have suffered any serious injuries.

A 10-year-old son suffered a broken collarbone, a Kulsoldham rescue worker explained to the Phuket Gazette.

“The father was not really physically injured, but he was dizzy and was struggling to remember things. The boy was okay, but we could see that his collarbone was broken,” the rescue worker said.

“We did not see any helmets at the scene,” he added

A witness said the husband was driving the motorbike with his family on board when a bronze Toyota car hit them from behind and then sped off. The witness could not recall the registration number of the car,” Kittiphum Na Thalang of the Thalang Police said.

The first dawn of the Seven Days of Danger broke over Phuket with no deaths having occurred between midnight to first light on December 27. However, later that day two died in separate incidents.

The goal of the Seven Days of Danger new year campaign was zero deaths on Phuket’s roads, Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut said before the campaign got underway. The other major goal is to see a five per cent decrease in the total number of accidents during the dangerous holiday season.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2012/Day-two-of-Seven-Days-of-Danger-witnesses-another-road-death-19840.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-12-30

[BlackJack]

when does the 7 day period start and finish

[Lite Beer]

Two dead in Phuket motorbike crash

Phuket Gazette -

PHUKET: Police are attempting to identify a foreign man and a woman killed in a motorcycle accident in Cherng Talay, on central Phuket’s west coast, last night.

The pair were riding a motorcycle along the Cherng Talay-Baan Don Road when they were struck by a pickup truck in front of Soi Pasak 3 at about 9:15pm, Lt Col Rassada of the Cherng Talay Police confirmed.

Both victims died at the scene from fatal head injuries, Lt Col Rassada said.

Police found no identification on the body of either victim.

“However, we did find a receipt from a from a business in Karon made out to a Mr Ivan,” Col Rassada added.

The driver of the Isuzu D-Max pickup truck involved in the collision, Sompop Saelim, 29, from Phuket, told police he was driving from Baan Don toward Cherng Talay when the accident happened.

“The motorcycle came from the other side of the road. The driver lost control and the motorbike fell onto the road. I could not brake in time,” he told police.

Regardless, Col Rassada said his officers would continue their investigation into the cause of the accident.

The two deaths brings the toll on Phuket’s roads during the “Seven Days of Danger” new year road-safety campaign to five, with four more days to go.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2012/Two-dead-in-Phuket-motorbike-crash-19843.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-12-30