Almost 100 street racers tossed in jail in huge Cha-Am/Hua Hin swoop

[jacksam]

The only thing to solve this dangerous behaviour is to confiscate the bikes, and then sell them on a public auction. The money they get should go to Innocentius traffic victims rehabilitation. The racer should also be fined with a ban for driving a vehicle for at least a year and loss of their drivers licence. If they after that would like to apply for a new liucence they should have a mandatory traffic school for at least 3 moths.

In my home country of Sweden we have rather tuff traffic laws. Some examples: No alchohol in your blood when driving. Which is good, because you do not have to calculate how much booze you can drink before driving. If you want to drive, then don´t drink. Car checkup everey year for cars older than 5 year. Mandatory seatbelts. Big fines or loss of driving licence if you do not stop on a crossover for pedestrians. REAL traffic schools when tou want to take a licence. And these schools are tuff...and expensive,

That is why we have around 400 deaths in traffic each year on a population of 10 million in Sweden compared to Thailands close to 40 000 on a population of 67 million.

I think traffic laws are one of the most important laws we have because a majority of them are made to provent deaths in traffic. But recently you can read that Thailand slowly are starting to inpose more severe inforcement opf the traffic laws. Happy to read that, and hopefully less accidents and deaths in the future.

Your kidding me. Comparing Sweden to Thailand. Have you ever worked for 300baht a day 7 day a week. Nonsense post. Maybe grab one of their knackers while you administer you justice system Edited May 1, 2016 by jacksam

[Gandtee]

It would seem that many TV posters have forgotten their youth. I am not condoning street racing, but didn't this happen in your locality in your youth? This is what some youths do when the sap is rising and they want show off infront of their mates. Motorbikes are their way of exercising a bit of freedom. Having said this, I still exclaim "Look at that stupid bastard". But then, I am 80 +.

My older brother ( now 71 ) around the mid '60s had a BSA Gold Star ,he still likes to recall when he used to blast through the tunnel in Reigate ( anyone know it ) the sound of the exhaust reverberating off the walls , walking folk covering their ears. He now says " If I heard that noise today I would think hanging would be too good for the 'em ".

But he was young then. Doing what red blooded boys did. Not playing with phones and taking selfies, or sitting around getting fat! Been there. Got the tee shirt.

[jaapfries]

Meanwhile in a second operation in Chonburi province around 100 police arrested a further 44 boys and girls under 18 for street racing on a bypass in the Nong Khang Khork to Ban Bung area, Thairath reported.

Some 82 bikes were seized after racers had taunted police on Facebook that "you can't catch us."

Arrested 44 people but seized 82 bikes...........Thai maths?......................

Topt: The "Math" is not wrong; these kids race these skinny little, but very loud mopeds with often 2 people on board; as in 'Boyfriend & Girlfriend' . . . . I was returning to Pattaya from Bangkok, last week and there must have been 1,000 of these 'tear-aways' parked besides the Highway, just after coming off the Motorway. - I knew what was coming, so I put my foot down (in order to stay ahead of this "armada", but unfortunately; next thing I know; these morons were racing past me at 140 Km/Hr. - I can tell you that this is a very scary experience, because a lot of these kids are high on something and their riding behavior is incredibly insane. I pulled-over to the left-shoulder and simply waited until the road was clear of them; and I was not the only one to take this evasive action.

[Blue Muton]

It would seem that many TV posters have forgotten their youth. I am not condoning street racing, but didn't this happen in your locality in your youth? This is what some youths do when the sap is rising and they want show off infront of their mates. Motorbikes are their way of exercising a bit of freedom. Having said this, I still exclaim "Look at that stupid bastard". But then, I am 80 +.

My older brother ( now 71 ) around the mid '60s had a BSA Gold Star ,he still likes to recall when he used to blast through the tunnel in Reigate ( anyone know it ) the sound of the exhaust reverberating off the walls , walking folk covering their ears. He now says " If I heard that noise today I would think hanging would be too good for the 'em ".

I hope he used Castrol R in the Goldie so it smelled as good as it would have sounded.