News Forum - Songkran festival ends with 243 deaths in traffic accidents

[Thaiger]

The six-day Songkran festival holiday in Thailand ended in tragedy as road accidents claimed the lives of 243 people and left 1,837 others injured. As announced by Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob on Wednesday, some 1,811 traffic accidents were recorded from April 11 to 16, coinciding with the period when many individuals travel back to their … …

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[ChrisS]

"The six-day Songkran festival holiday in Thailand ended in tragedy as road accidents claimed the lives of 243 people and left 1,837 others injured"

These figures are a bit meaningless unless taken in context of normal average number of road deaths in Thailand which I believe is 62 per day so expected number for 6 days would be 372 so less people killed during Songkran!

[Manu]

3 minutes ago, ChrisS said:

"The six-day Songkran festival holiday in Thailand ended in tragedy as road accidents claimed the lives of 243 people and left 1,837 others injured"

These figures are a bit meaningless unless taken in context of normal average number of road deaths in Thailand which I believe is 62 per day so expected number for 6 days would be 372 so less people killed during Songkran!

Good point, I have also checked, it seems indeed there are 62 killed daily on the roads in Thailand (and a million injuries per year, that's a mad number) so actually the road safety campaign was somehow very successful...but saying that is just as meaningless.