News Forum - 7 Dangerous Days: 226 road deaths, 1915 accidents in 4 days

[Thaiger]

On the fourth day of what the Road Safety Directing Centre of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has labelled the Seven Dangerous Days, 73 people lost their lives in 574 road accidents, up slightly from yesterday. A total of 226 people have died on the roads of Thailand since December 30 with deaths being reported now in 42 of the 77 provinces in the country. Bangkok had 6 fatalities yesterday, the most of any province. People between the ages of 30 and 49 were the most common demographic for road deaths, with 17% of all fatalities falling in […]

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[Nivram]

Ok let's concentrate on the impact on life due to the Omicron variant instead.

Same story every year deaths on the roads.  Nothing changes.

[Sid]

So let's shut the roads down 

[Easterneye]

The chickenheads with their never ending craze to drive everywhere flat out come hell or high water , coupled with the ,, I’m not backing down and loosing face even if it kills all of us alongside all the silly lucky amulets round their necks and the Mai bpen Rai krap attitude never fail to disappoint the ministry’s official death figures on any given holiday period 

[Faz]

Derogatory posts and replies removed.

[Dedinbed]

18 hours ago, Thaiger said:

the fourth day of what the Road Safety Directing Centre of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has labelled the Seven Dangerous Days, 73 people lost their lives in 574 road accidents

The fact that it has to be labelled as " Seven Dangerous Days " is to their everlasting shame as it's an unsaid admission that they are unable do anything about the daily carnage on the roads .. 

[KaptainRob]

1 minute ago, Dedinbed said:

The fact that it has to be labelled as " Seven Dangerous Days " is to their everlasting shame as it's an unsaid admission that they are unable do anything about the daily carnage on the roads .. 

Given current stats re 84% being motorcycle fatalities it indicates stupidity among riders and the lack of rider training and law enforcement.  If only they impounded each m/c upon which a safety law was breached. 

Yesterday in Chiang Mai, 2 young men 19 and 20, died when they hit their unprotected heads after crashing a m/c.

Once again CM police were breath-testing, at 1am, and arrested 10 drivers last night at just one checkpoint.

[Nivram]

The government only cares about one week, how about the other 51 weeks of road deaths.

 

PS: why is nothing done about letting minors (under 16) ride a motorbike?

[Scotty]

And they'll call this successful as it was less than last year.