Phuket officials announce Songkran Thai New Year road-safety campaign

The Phuket News

 

Boontan Sonthon, 34, died after losing control of his motorbike and crashing into a roadside pylon in Cherng Talay on April 16 last year. Officials are hoping for a better road-fatality record this year. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- The Songkran Thai New Year “Seven Days of Danger” road-safety campaign this year will be held from April 11-17, Phuket officials announced yesterday (Mar 29).

 

“The aim is to reduce the number of victims from road accidents to less than 10 per 100,000 people across the country by 2020,” Phuket Vice Governor Snith Sriwihok told a meeting at the Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) in Phuket Town.

 

“To achieve this target, Phuket is following the national policy by developing an ‘accident network’ in the province in order to have the most effective road-accident protection measures that will actually reduce the number of road accidents,” he said.

 

This year the Songkran Seven Days road-safety campaign will be conducted under the theme “Khab Rod Mee Namjai Raksa Winai Jarajorn” (“Drive carefully, follow traffic rules”).

 

As usual, the campaign will include checkpoints, Songkran safe water-play zones, enforcement of speed limits and road-safety measures at known traffic accident “black spots”, V/Gov Snith explained.

 

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Oh boy! The " “Seven Days of Danger” are here again!

 

another safety campaign brought out of storage like Christmas decorations from last year and the year before that.

Keep away from any roads. The best insurance for survival.

55 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

Keep away from any roads. The best insurance for survival.

 

For sure during Songkran I don't drive and stay home ...