Central insurance firm says 2,315 people died from road accidents this year



BANGKOK: -- A total of 2,315 people died and 152,438 others were injured during the start of this year till Sunday March 13.

The shocking figures of road fatalities were disclosed by the Road Accident Victims Protection Company Limited yesterday.

The private company, which has 60 insurance companies as its shareholders and is doing non-life insurance business, said the figures were from road accidents happened from January 1 to March 13 this year.

It was established under the Protection for Motor Vehicle Accident Victims Act.

But the company did not elaborate on details involving the types of vehicles or which part of the country or which roads or highways where most fatal accidents happend.

It stated only that the cause of most accidents came from tiredness after long driving by drivers, particularly chartered tour bus which has only one driver.

In addition these drivers might not have experience in their routes, and drive in high speed, particularly while driving downhill.

Other causes included imperfect braking system and the bus body and seats.

It then advised drivers of these buses to rotate after driving about 400 kilometres, or take half an hour rest, and drive at 80 kilometres an hour.

It also advised school master arranging a sightseeing tour for students to avoid starting the trip at night, and make sure all passengers fasten their seat belts to prevent them from being thrown out of the bus in case of impacts.

It also advised that they must check if the bus has third-party insurance coverage or not.

Meanwhile the Ministry of Public Health’s deputy permanent secretary Dr Suwanchai Watanayingcharoenchai said its study on fatalities from road accidents in 2016 showed there were 104 cases of road accidents involving public buses.

A total of 49 persons died on scenes, and 675 others were injured.

Of the 104 cases, six involved chartered buses of educational institutes.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/155354


-- Thai PBS 2016-03-16

Out of the 152,438 "injured", at least 2% would have succumbed to their injuries, therefore you can easily double/treble that.

I use 2% prudently as motorbike accidents at speed with large SUVs/wagons/trucks don't usually mix particularly well.

I would think 30/40k people die directly/indirectly from rta's each year

Edited March 16, 201610 yr by jucel

That works out to around 11,600 for the year. Seems way too low.

There used to be an informative FB page on daily Thai "accidents/suicides/murders" etc.

It has now been removed & the author placed in the local gulag!

this is only those who had insurance, what about those who died who did not have insurance

...and everybody remember: if someones does not die directly on the scene of an accident, but 30 minutes later in the hospital...that death will not even show up in the road accident- statistic!

2.300 in 2,5 month...that would be 31 dead...per day, so far!

Move on, there is nothing to see here!

At least 30 per day in Thailand; At least!!

Since the inception years ago in Australia of putting crosses at the location, where people have died in road accidents

you can still drive in places for miles and not see any crosses,

unfortunately here the whole of Thailand would be covered from top to bottom and width to width

not much distance covered before seeing such a cross or crosses,

no wonder they never took that message and respect practise on here.

Another white lie!

Being the land of smiles did they all die with a smile on their face.

I've thought about this a bit trying to figure it out.

Come up with a theory or two.

Most don't know the rules of the road.

Don't recognise dangerous situations.

Imagine playing football with a load of divs that don't know the game and keep picking up and running with the ball.

Imagine playing chess against an opponent that doesn't know the game and think they're playing draughts.

Do you find yourself repeating..<deleted>...how cluckin dumb ru?

Just me pennies worth..

That works out to around 11,600 for the year. Seems way too low.

The actual number a couple years ago was over 24K. Higher now. I believe its 80-100 per day

this is only those who had insurance, what about those who died who did not have insurance

Come on man, why you guys always have to ruin the party?

And what about the ones who died in hospitals after a roadaccident? They don't count as trafficvictims.

77 a day RTA not including hospital RTA deaths

There is a error in the title of this "article", it says per year, not per week.