looks like this might be a deadly Songkran
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 5:46 pm
every year they say they will do this and do that to try an stop the carnage, but whatever they come up with, it never works.
Drinking, throwing water, speeding, ignoring the law..... all add up to accidents...
Drinking, throwing water, speeding, ignoring the law..... all add up to accidents...
Thirty-nine killed, 461 injured on first of Songkran’s ‘7 deadly days’
NATIONWIDE: Thirty-nine people were killed and 461 injured in 447 road accidents across the country yesterday (Apr 11), the first of the “Seven deadly days” of the Songkran festival.
Drink-driving was the cause of 40.49% of the crashes, followed by speeding at 26.62%, Tourism and Sports Minister Weerasak Kowsuwat said today (Apr 12), citing a report by the road safety centre of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.
Most of the accidents – 81.96% – involved motorcycles, and 61.30% occurred on main roads. The peak time for crashes was between 4pm and 8pm, said Mr Weerasak.
https://www.thephuketnews.com/thirty-ni ... g4Sp9C2.97Authorities have set up 2,031 road checkpoints manned by a total of 65,413 police, soldiers, officials and volunteers. A total of 678,566 vehicles were stopped for inspection, with 128,260 people facing action for traffic violations. Of them, a total of 35,582 people failed to wear crash helmets.
More than 3,000 people were arrested for drink-drinking and 146 vehicles impounded yesterday, the first-day of the anti-drink driving measures during the Songkran festival.