Land Transport Dept aims to reduce road accidents during New Year season

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Department of Land Transport aims to reduce road accidents during New Year season

BANGKOK, 9 December 2015 (NNT) – Land Transport Department director-general Sanit Promwong has disclosed that the agency and over 2,000 private units nationwide have organized an activity called "checking automobiles before use for safety reasons” which offers a free check-up service for 20 auto items.

The Department of Land Transport has set a goal to minimize the number of road accidents. Motorists are suggested to abide by the rules and regulations under a campaign entitled “Happy Health, Happy Heart and Safe Driving toward New Year 2016.”

All government agencies at central and regional levels have been instructed to work with the Ministry of Transport to facilitate travelers and ensure safety during a seven-days time of possible road perils nationwide.

In addition, the department has insisted that bus operators have an adequate number of buses to shuttle passengers during the long holiday season and that they all must carry licenses. Bus operators have to abide by the law, such as by refraining from overcharging fares and driving passengers to their destinations safely.


-- NNT 2015-12-09

[madmitch]

"checking automobiles before use for safety reasons"

“Happy Health, Happy Heart and Safe Driving toward New Year 2016.”

Thailand, the hub of crappy slogans.

Edited December 9, 2015 by madmitch

[jaywalker]

*Groan*

Enforcing traffic laws consistently all flipping YEAR would be a step in the right direction.

Nothing like waiting till the last minute though.

Edited December 9, 2015 by jaywalker

[phoenixdoglover]

I foresee a lot of windshield wiper blades requiring replacement.

[WhizBang]

Guess it's that time of year again. Time for all the silly slogans and official pronouncements. I did not see anything about cracking down on drunk drivers. Guess that will be next week's pronouncement.

Here's an idea... Make the Police do the job they are paid for 24/7/365.

[MESmith]

"checking automobiles before use for safety reasons” which offers a free check-up service for 20 auto items.

Don't forget to check brains of drivers

[HOAX]

You better start reducing accidents if Thailand is ever going to reach it`s 80% reduction in just 5 years promise lol

[lee b]

Are the buses safe? Emmmmmmmmmmm?????

[Rocceao]

"The Department of Land Transport has set a goal to minimize the number of road accidents. Motorists are suggested to abide by the rules and regulations".

Do they honestly expect that making a suggestion to drivers is going to get them to abide to the road rules? The only way to get them to comply is to educate and punish with heavy penalties.

If Thais can be educated to be nationalistic by getting them to sing Pratet Thai twice a day as childen, and teach them to be proud of their culture and teach them that they are 95% Budhist all though they know very little about the religion and it purpose

Then it shouldn't be that hard to educate from an early age about and how to follow all of the rules and regulations and not just road rules, making them proud about it wouldn't be too much harder either.

nationwide have organized an activity called "checking automobiles before use for safety reasons” which offers a free check-up service for 20 auto items.

How is this going to be organised? will all registered vehicle owners be sent a notice in the mail told to take the vehicle in for inspection? and what are the penalties if the notice is not followed? how many people will even bother?

Also inspecting vehicles, how will this stop wreckless drivers, how will it stop hit and run, how will it stop drunk and drugged up drivers?

They really haven't put much thought to it at all.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Edited December 9, 2015 by Rocceao

[graemeaylward]

No mention of a television advert campaign similar to those in other countries! In UK we have ongoing public service adverts re road safety throughout the year. Many show the difference that driving at safe speeds can make in saving lives, others show the devastating effect that using a mobile phone whilst driving can have. At Christmas and New Year the adverts are stepped up to include the foolishness of drink driving and its consequences for others. Road Safety messages are also built into "soaps" (TV theatre) which is another lesson Thailand could learn from. All of these adverts and messages are very graphic and effective, but are backed up by Police actions and enforcement! Vehicles are required by law to be tested after 3 years from new and annually thereafter. With the technology of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras, very few escape!

[pisico]

No mention of a television advert campaign similar to those in other countries! In UK we have ongoing public service adverts re road safety throughout the year. Many show the difference that driving at safe speeds can make in saving lives, others show the devastating effect that using a mobile phone whilst driving can have. At Christmas and New Year the adverts are stepped up to include the foolishness of drink driving and its consequences for others. Road Safety messages are also built into "soaps" (TV theatre) which is another lesson Thailand could learn from. All of these adverts and messages are very graphic and effective, but are backed up by Police actions and enforcement! Vehicles are required by law to be tested after 3 years from new and annually thereafter. With the technology of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras, very few escape!

Why bother with all that?

Thais have amulets to take care of all the perils of the road and... Thainess

[Reigntax]

Yes, reduce over the holiday period and afterwards let the carnage recommence.

[KhunBENQ]

The annual festive season empty slogans.

Next stop: Songkran,

10 fold road checks

10 fold breathalyser/drug tests

10 fold penalties

Income dependent penalties for major offense (a German football star recently paid 500'000 Euro for driving without license)

Mental/background checks for commercial drivers

Confiscating the wrecks on the spot

Every uninsured vehicle/motorbike locked up

That would probably help a bit.

Just fantasizing.

Edited December 9, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[trainman34014]

Thai's are habitual law breakers from the moment they can crawl on all fours. A little later they learn to drink well...but don't learn to drive well. They also have little or no regard for Human life, including their own and the lives of their own families. Put these factors together in a low IQ brain with a few dysfunctional cells and you have a recipe for ever increasing road deaths.

No matter what the official figures turn out to be you can rely on the fact that more people will die every year in the foreseeable future unless all road travel is banned completely !

[Broken Record]

Thai's are habitual law breakers from the moment they can crawl on all fours.

Yet you come to live in Thailand by choice, probably married one of these habitual offenders and remain in Thailand by choice.

Your home country must be really bad.

[Assurancetourix]

It is, it's France or rather that it remains

[soalbundy]

No mention of a television advert campaign similar to those in other countries! In UK we have ongoing public service adverts re road safety throughout the year. Many show the difference that driving at safe speeds can make in saving lives, others show the devastating effect that using a mobile phone whilst driving can have. At Christmas and New Year the adverts are stepped up to include the foolishness of drink driving and its consequences for others. Road Safety messages are also built into "soaps" (TV theatre) which is another lesson Thailand could learn from. All of these adverts and messages are very graphic and effective, but are backed up by Police actions and enforcement! Vehicles are required by law to be tested after 3 years from new and annually thereafter. With the technology of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras, very few escape!

Why bother with all that?

Thais have amulets to take care of all the perils of the road and... Thainess

I'll drink to that

[samsensam]

how about aiming to reduce road traffic accidents all the time?

[Artisi]

The annual festive season empty slogans.

Next stop: Songkran,

10 fold road checks

10 fold breathalyser/drug tests

10 fold penalties

Income dependent penalties for major offense (a German football star recently paid 500'000 Euro for driving without license)

Mental/background checks for commercial drivers

Confiscating the wrecks on the spot

Every uninsured vehicle/motorbike locked up

That would probably help a bit.

Just fantasizing.

Hallucinating....

[The Deerhunter]

"Under section 44 you are ordered not to have fatal accidents. Survivors will be tried in a military court.

[berybert]

They have put a limit on the number of deaths allowed during the holiday season.

I have seen a leaked report from a senior member of the authorities which gives that number as 300 per day.

Once this number is reached anyone else who dies will be fined 200baht and be told to go on their way.

[mca]

In another development the department aimed to reduce the number of road deaths over the holiday blah. The blah blah blah blah blah is blah blah blah upcountry. A spokesperson said " We aim to set up blah blah blan blah blah to cut the number of blah blah and people driving without blah blah blah or blah blah blah. Police will be blah blah blah and anybody found to be blah blah blah willl be blah blah blah."

[Doc46]

This is never going to happen,,No one cares what anyone says or the Government says ,nobody is going to listen to anyone.If the Rules and Laws are not enforced nothing will ever happen.

[Strangebrew]

Does that mean only report one out of 10 accidents? Problem solved.

[fred Kubasa]

At least 10 Thai agencies have made this same promise for 10 years and accidents climbed !

[phoenixdoglover]

"Under section 44 you are ordered not to have fatal accidents. Survivors will be tried in a military court.

Dead defendants and military courts - at last, a viable approach for speeding up Thai Justice.

[PeVee1st]

This program gets rolled out every holidays.

Until there is a deterence there will be no reduction in the killings on the roads.

[Nowisee]

Blah, blah, blah "aims".... blah, blah, blah "plans"

Never see a blah, blah, blah "is" or blah, blah, blah "has".

less aims and plans and more is and has...ok?

[poohy]

Meanwhile in real life

2 brain dead F***wits driving minivans race each other killing a few people.

I don't hold out much hope !

[tuanku]

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Napoleon Bonaparte