NCPO to enforce stricter traffic rules to prevent road fatalities during Songkran Festival

[DM07]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn!

[jerojero]

Blah, blah blah..... same old blathering that depends on enforcement that will be erratic and short-lived, if at all.

Edited March 23, 2016 by jerojero

[ableguy]

Annual dose of bullshit, why don't they employ white magic, give every monk a bonus, promise not one person will die on the roads, put their heads where the sun don't shine and finally admit Thailand is the hub of road deaths.

[kimamey]

Who wants to bet a round of beer that in a few weeks it will come out that this was the deadliest Songkran holiday ever recorded?

May just as well make that bet 1m quid. You're hiding behind an assumed name on an anonymous forum, how will we collect from you when you lose?

It's pretty unlikely that FireMedic will lose. If that did happen your see the police leap into action to stop the illegal gambling and confiscate the 1 million as their reward.

[kimamey]

Very tired of reading the same thing year in and year out. Until they educate people to 'obey the law' and the powers that be 'enforce' the laws in a meaningful way, nothing will ever change the carnage on Thai roads.

"educate to obey", good point but let's also add 'know the law'.

Example: Older Thai students discussing this in the class room, some saying vehicles don't ever have to stop, even if there are pedestrians on the crossing.

One student called her uncle, a senior cop, student asked her uncle to share the actual law, he said: "by the law if drivers can see there are people waiting to cross they must stop and must not move their vehicle until all the pedestrians have stepped foot onto the other side footpath or stepped onto the area after the black and white strips have stopped".

Many other students spoke strongly that this was not correct, they claimed strongly hat it's not the law and it's not fair to expect drivers to stop at pedestrian crossings.

At next lesson of One of the objectors said she has called the LTO and they told her the same as the senior cop mentioned just above. But also mentioned it's not olite to ask drivers to stop.

Another student said he has asked a cop friend (a quite junior cop) about this. The junior cop said "there are no laws at all about this subject and people should not expect vehicles to stop, ever, even at a pedestrian crossing you should just wait until there are no cars."

Confusion abounds.

Wasn't it last year, or maybe the year before that police in Bangkok started to get though with vehicles not stopping at crossings? I wonder how that went?

They even tried putting lights on a crossing and everyone ignored the red light. Including the police.

They need to look at countries where the death to is much less. They might realise that in general checkpoints doing work. They need police who are working when they are on a bike or in a vehicle and not just when they have some Chinese and a table. They need a proper vehicle registration with camera and systems in the police cars (some unmarked) to check driving licences and insurance. Oh and a proper police force. They need to start now on getting a proper driving test. This is a big undertaking but it won't get done it they don't start. Money shouldn't be a problem as we're always being told they are not in debt like other Western countries.