Drink driving motorists will have their vehicles impounded until after New Year festival

[rasmus5150]

In the end, the drunk drivers will just pay a "fine" with no receipt. Same same as always.

[Emster23]

I can just see them stopping cars with drunk elites in them and "kicking them out". Those emblems on grills are like get out of jail free cards.

[Anon999]

I guess we will just have to wait and see the results (death count) at the end of the holidays. No plan is perfect

but a plan that is actually put into effect/enforcement will be new, compared to past procedures/talk which has been the norm.

My experience is that usually the " official" results of the 7 dangerous days tend to be lower than the average day throughout the year, so why should it be differnt this time?

Why are you referring to the average deaths/day, around 80, which although true has nothing to do with topic? The published statistics for the 7 days are:

New Year 2010: 347 deaths, 3,827 injuries and 3,534 accidents

New Year 2011: 358 deaths, 3,750 injuries and 3,497 accidents

New Year 2012: 336 deaths, 3,375 injuries and 3,093 accidents

New Year 2013: 365 deaths, 3,329 injuries and 3,176 accidents

New Year 2014: 341 deaths

Just maybe many drivers are at home or with friends/relatives therefore the average of 50/day would account for a lower figure. If following the trend the number should be down this year.

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Edited December 24, 2015 by Anon999

[featography]

How about confiscating the vehicles, reselling them, using the funds for drug and alchohol clinics. Too harsh?

Not too harsh, better to resell them and use the money to get more traffic police, train them, nab the drunk and dangerous drivers.

then start all over again.

Keep doing it, more and more trained traffic police, road fatalities will soon lower.

We all know that nothing like this will ever happen though.

Another option; Confiscated vehicles could be repainted white and brown, given to police officers to ride in and get them off those useless motorbikes. Seeing your confiscated car being driven by cops with a new paint job would add insult, shame and more punishment for your drinking and driving. That might do more to ''cure the dog from sucking eggs''

[duckmandon]

There is something majorly wrong with the photo!! Their all wearing seat belts! 55555

[AlQaholic]

Unfortunately it is the back-street nightly drunken motorcycle driver deaths that is the main cause of traffic deaths in Thailand, not the highways...

[DavisH]

This is only for the poor...no problems if you got a nice euro car and / or connections. I really want to see this plan fully implemented, but still have my doubts if will be applied across the board. Impoundment of the vehicle for a given time + big fine should help...but only if implemented.

[jimdob01]

Christmas and New Years fatalities are nothing compared to Sonkran.

[jerojero]

Army doing RTP's work, again. Where is the PM's achievement on RTP reform? Buffoons, the whole lot.

[ldiablo]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Peterphuket]

Do you think it makes any difference, when you see this?? : http://www.telegraaf.nl/tv/opmerkelijk/24917330/__Man_na_crash_geschept_door_truck__.html

[scorecard]

They would do better impounding the drivers.emergency

Better still, impound both car and driver, plus fine, plus 50 hours of active community service in the road accident emergency room of a hospital.

Edited December 25, 2015 by scorecard

[scorecard]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

[sirineou]

Be interested in the logistics of this.

Where will the impounded vehicles be kept?

How will they get there?

What happens if a checkpoint finds 10, 20, 30 or more drunks in one day/evening/night?

The logistics are simple

"Where will the impounded vehicles be kept?"

at the cop's girlfriend's house

"How will they get there?"

Girlfriend will drive it to her home after going shopping

"What happens if a checkpoint finds 10, 20, 30 or more drunks in one day/evening/night?"

Cop get's more Girlfriends

[ldiablo]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

Obviously smarter than you if you don't know the difference between your and you're.

[sirineou]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

Obviously smarter than you if you don't know the difference between your and you're.

You know the difference between your and you're!!

Wow you are so smart

[ldiablo]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

Obviously smarter than you if you don't know the difference between your and you're.

You know the difference between your and you're!!

Wow you are so smart

Was I talking to you? Mind your own business.

[Ks45672]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

most bars I visit usually have rows of bikes outside.... A drunk farang is probably still a better driver than a sobre Thai...

The police enforce it a few times a year if ever , the rest of the year its the norm to drive home drunk, I don't mind them on scooters because they will probably only hurt themselves....

I hate seeing someone pissed driving away in a big pickup etc but if they don't listen to the police, law etc they're not going to listen to me....

I am not sure why they don't do it like the rest of the world and ban them for a year or two....

+jail for anyone who is driving while banned

[roo860]

Last night I was at the pub with some friends getting sh!t faced drunk. When it was time to leave I staggered over to my motorcycle (Ninja650) which had two police standing beside it. I stumbled up to them, wished them a Happy New year and got on my bike and drove away.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wow your so smart.

Obviously smarter than you if you don't know the difference between your and you're.

You know the difference between your and you're!!

Wow you are so smart

He's winding you up!! Edited December 25, 2015 by roo860

[sirineou]

Wow your so smart.

Obviously smarter than you if you don't know the difference between your and you're.

You know the difference between your and you're!!

Wow you are so smart

He's winding you up!!

Not me, I don't argue with drunks

When he talks in open forum he talks to all, if he wants a private conversation he has the PM option

Last I heard, Drunk driving was illegal, irresponsible and stupid and admitting it in open forum compounds the stupidity, In fact I believe, suggesting illegal activity is against the rules of this forum.

[Broken Record]

How about confiscating the vehicles, reselling them, using the funds for drug and alchohol clinics. Too harsh?

Not too harsh, better to resell them and use the money to get more traffic police, train them, nab the drunk and dangerous drivers.

then start all over again.

Keep doing it, more and more trained traffic police, road fatalities will soon lower.

We all know that nothing like this will ever happen though.

Another option; Confiscated vehicles could be repainted white and brown, given to police officers to ride in and get them off those useless motorbikes. Seeing your confiscated car being driven by cops with a new paint job would add insult, shame and more punishment for your drinking and driving. That might do more to ''cure the dog from sucking eggs''

Not a bad idea, there would be plenty of Farang owned 4x4's and SUV's painted brown and white, though for Farangs I think the punishment should be deportation and blacklisted from coming back to Thailand for a period of 10 years, I know many farangs that drink and have cars, they nearly all drink and drive on a regular basis. They figure it will only cost them a few thousand baht and unless they have a serious accident, they are probably right.

Strict laws would/should stop them.

Edited December 25, 2015 by Broken Record

[Ks45672]

How about confiscating the vehicles, reselling them, using the funds for drug and alchohol clinics. Too harsh?

Not too harsh, better to resell them and use the money to get more traffic police, train them, nab the drunk and dangerous drivers.

then start all over again.

Keep doing it, more and more trained traffic police, road fatalities will soon lower.

We all know that nothing like this will ever happen though.

Another option; Confiscated vehicles could be repainted white and brown, given to police officers to ride in and get them off those useless motorbikes. Seeing your confiscated car being driven by cops with a new paint job would add insult, shame and more punishment for your drinking and driving. That might do more to ''cure the dog from sucking eggs''

Not a bad idea, there would be plenty of Farang owned 4x4's and SUV's painted brown and white, though for Farangs I think the punishment should be deportation and blacklisted from coming back to Thailand for a period of 10 years, I know many farangs that drink and have cars, they nearly all drink and drive on a regular basis. They figure it will only cost them a few thousand baht and unless they have a serious accident, they are probably right.

Strict laws would/should stop them.

On the previous Crackdown my Thai friend and wiIf you owe a bank a hundred thousand dollars, you've got a problem. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, the bank's got a problem.fe were hammered after about, 14 bottles of leo

They paid 3k I think, up from the normal 400 but he still drinks like a fish after work daily

A lengthy ban is what you need.... But nobody can enforce it

[tuanku]

Some bus companies preferentially employ Muslim drivers as they consider them less likely to be inebriated at the wheel. Could be a good niche for the Muslim brotherhood.