Five dead as Phuket races toward close of New Year road-safety campaign
Saroj Kueprasertkij


Five people have died and 69 have been injured on Phuket's raods since the Seven Days of Danger national road-safety campaign began. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- As Phuket barrels toward the end of its part in the nationwide “Seven Days in Danger” road-safety campaign, which concludes at midnight tonight (Jan 4), the death and injury toll stands at five dead and 69 people receiving hospital treatment of injuries.

here have been no road deaths since that of Myanmar national Than Zaw Htwe, 25, in a motorbike accident in Koh Kaew yesterday, confirmed the Phuket official of the Department of Disaster Prevention and mitigation (DDPM-Phuket) this morning.

The fourth victim was 28-year-old Eksarayuth Intharat, who died at about 1am on Saturday (Jan 2) in a high-speed accident on Chao Fa West Rd, near the entrance to the Phuket Villa 5 residential estate, in Wichit.

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-- Phuket News 2016-01-05

High speed, again and again these idiot drivers think its formula one out there, coming up behind you and flashing lights to get past or overtaking on the inside with hardly any space from the vehicle in front, the roads here are the wild wild west and the government does not understand this one teansy ,teansy little bit.

I say congratulations, if they have indeed caused a reduction in road deaths... But obviously we need this on a full time basis

Anyone got the stats to show how the areas compare historically?

And a Tuk tuk ride is something worth filming, to show the folks back home... Perhaps accompanied by a t shirt stating " I survived Thailand."