Death Toll On 5Th Day Of Songkran Stands At 255

[Lite Beer]

Death toll on 5th day of Songkran stands at 255

BANGKOK, 16 April 2013 (NNT) - The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department has disclosed that the number of road casualties on the first five days of Songkran reaches 2, 290.

So far, 255 motorists have been killed and 2,439 injured. The number is higher than that of the same period last year.

The agency reported that on the fifth day alone, there have been 393 road accidents with 37 killed and 419 injured.

Chiang Mai has overtaken Nakorn Si Thammarat at seeing the highest number of accidents at 86. Prachuap Khiri Khan and Kanchaburi saw a record death toll of 11 each. The most accident-free provinces meanwhile include Chonburi, Trat, Nonthaburi and Phuket.

Nearly 40 percent of the accidents were caused by drunk driving, followed by speeding.

-- NNT 2013-04-16

[Chao Lao Beach]

Looks like people are not listening to Miss Yinluck

[Mosha]

I think we should all re-locate to Trat.

[Locationthailand]

So the crackdown and new rules have been totally ignored by the police who haven't got a hope in hell of upholding them - or the people simply thumb their noses and accept whatever happens as karma and who cares?

[Pattaya28]

As they say in Thailand "Up To U"

[NongKhaiKid]

Looks like people are not listening to Miss Yinluck

Does anybody ?

[NongKhaiKid]

and at a meeting of the Ministry of Propaganda the topic for discussion is " how do we play this ? "

[Fookhaht]

In our province, all accidents are due solely to "Bad Luck."

[Thai at Heart]

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

[jimbeam1]

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

Exactly. Keep those chambers spinning?

jb1

[seminomadic]

If Phuket and Chonburi are the MOST ACCIDENT-FREE provinces, then they're doing something really right and it's time for everyone else to take notes.

[Skywalker69]

Another PTP success

[seajae]

just got back from Phattalung, saw 2 accidents, one on the way down, car burnt out in the middle of the road(double lanes, divided road) facing the wrong way against a tree(in the middle of a village), and on the way back today 5 cars in a pile up, last one was a truck that shunted all the cars. We saw and were pulled up at one police check in Phattalung, so much for the police will be out on duty bit, did see a lot of tents on the sides of the roads with the boys drinking coffee ands sleeping though, not doing anything about the traffic. Did see a few drunks, you could tell by the fact they had to use both lanes to go straight, everyone just went around them until they started speeding then everyone just slowed down and let them go, well apart from those that wanted to race them of course.

[DocN]

Another PTP success

Yeah...as if...oh what the f,,,,

[MEL1]

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department discloses that all of the road signs, slow down signs, sleeping policemen and other planned artifacts, that were due to be displayed from 6 days ago hence, were not in fact manufactured on time as a result of the funds for the aforementioned articles disappearing 3 months prior to order date. We apologise for subsequent deaths, and allay those accidents on pure revelling and Drunken driving during this time. We will, however, endeavour to reduce our personal graft next year, in order to reduce this year's figures - as we did last year.

-mel :@ :@

[dcutman]

Nearly 40 percent of the accidents were caused by drunk driving a total lack of law enforcement!!!

[culicine]

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

Shouldn't be too many deaths when crawling back to BKK at 10 km/h, but will be leads of fender benders. Came back mid-day from Ratchaburi and the traffic was very light with no accidents seen.

[Thai at Heart]

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

The last 2 days everyone has been at their destination. Now next 2 days, exodus back.

Shouldn't be too many deaths when crawling back to BKK at 10 km/h, but will be leads of fender benders. Came back mid-day from Ratchaburi and the traffic was very light with no accidents seen.

Well they crawled up to isaan and managed plenty of dings.

[Nisa]

I predict a total of 315 or 5 shy of last year.

[surangw]

can or do they differentiate songkran deaths from non related deaths?

[Nisa]

can or do they differentiate songkran deaths from non related deaths?

The numbers pretty much doubled during Songkran last year than they would a normal week and would guess that will hold about true for this year too..

[A Member]

can or do they differentiate songkran deaths from non related deaths?

The whole process is a joke and gives lots of wiggle room for the government to make the best it can of the figures. There may be the 7 " dangerous days " but past governments, especially the real Thaksin's, would redefine what days were to be counted to reduce the figures. As I understand it, and I am more than willing to be corrected, a death is only counted if on the day of the accident so someone who succumbs to their injuries later isn't included. The official figures that will be released are very arbitrary

[bristolgeoff]

what will be they plan next year,i will wait and see what the powers to be say

[PoodMaiDai]

No accidents in Chonburi?

[personchester]

In our province, all accidents are due solely to "Bad Luck."

It is bad luck all round because no accidents are caused purposely.

[teetersb]

No accidents in Chonburi?

Exactly. No accidents my a**! I hear the ambulance every 2-3 hours from mid-morning until midnight.

Edited April 17, 2013 by teetersb

[apetley]

I predict a total of 315 or 5 shy of last year.

Does that include people who die in hospital over the next month? That's something you rarely read about in the Govt released figures.

[Langsuan Man]

No accidents in Chonburi?

That is because the moving holiday hasn't hit Chonburi province yet ( Pattaya is 17,18 and 19 )

When is the government going to wake up and realize that this stupid idea of having everyone celebrate the holiday on a different day is what encourages all of these accidents

I used to live in a state where every town set it's own drinking hours which meant that when the bars closed in one town a 1 AM all the drinkers would get into their cars and go to the town that closed at 2 AM, and when they closed there, they would continue on to the town that served until 3 AM. Once the state government established the same hours for all bars in the state the death toll from drinking and driving dropped dramatically

[bangon04]

can or do they differentiate songkran deaths from non related deaths?

The whole process is a joke and gives lots of wiggle room for the government to make the best it can of the figures. There may be the 7 " dangerous days " but past governments, especially the real Thaksin's, would redefine what days were to be counted to reduce the figures. As I understand it, and I am more than willing to be corrected, a death is only counted if on the day of the accident so someone who succumbs to their injuries later isn't included. The official figures that will be released are very arbitrary

If they are so arbitrary, surely it makes political sense to just lie and say the figures are much lower than last year because of successful police enforcement. The Yingluck supporters are trained to believe anything the government says, so it would be a win-win situation. Or is someone actually counting.....?

[mok199]

wow...im dead......just so happy and honoured to be a statisic...here in this place they call...''AMAZING THAILAND''....