Flashermac Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 A total of 850 road accidents happened on Friday and Saturday, the first and second days of the seven dangerous Songkran holidays, killing 102 people. The accidents also injured 893 other people, the Road Safety Directing Centre announced Sunday. On the second day alone, 471 accidents happened, killing 63 people and injuring 491 others. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Songkran-death-toll-rises-to-102-after-two-days-30231441.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Hi, Same thing every year and every year the police vow that they will improve safety, yet nothing ever changes. Blame doesn't rest solely with the police though. Way, way too many morons on the roads, many who seem to think that alcohol and driving go together fine. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyinEwa/Perv Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 KS, the police can't act as a taxi driver to each individual traveling over the holiday. I don't think the police have much blame here at all. Other than making a road block about every mile on each piece of road in Thailand, (which is clearly impossible) there is not much they can do. The blame lies squarely on the fools behind the wheel of the car they don't know how to control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Hi, Yes and no, a very big part of the problem is that traffic rules are almost never enforced and this results in many people not giving a shit about the rules. And that in turn results in the crap we see on the roads now. Take for instance the helmet laws. The police *only* stop people for this if they have set up a special road block for it, at any other time they just ignore this. If they want people to follow the rules, they should *always* be enforced, which means every single time a policeman sees someone without a helmet, fine them! Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 The blame lies squarely on the fools behind the wheel of the car they don't know how to control. Aren't most of the deaths usually motorbike drivers and passengers, or are they killed by the car drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 The problem lies with the Thai attitude of laws are not for me. If the police enforce the laws they get a lot of shit and threats from the person they are trying to fine And you never know if they have a gun or influential friends or whatever. Which is why the police is not to keen on enforcing laws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 How many accidents are there on a normal Friday and Saturday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Don't know the statistics but from traveling around with the comedy group a lot in the past (we used to have work every friday and saturday) I can say that there are a lot of accidents on the road in the evenings. We used to pass at least 2 or 3 accidents with at least wounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted April 13, 2014 Report Share Posted April 13, 2014 Apparently the numbers of fatal accidents and injuries approximately doubles over Songkran. Read that in one of the reports the last couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 As I just posted in another thread... Saw on the Thai TV News, the police stopping cars and doing a breathalyzer test for alcohol... the motorsias passing thru the check points, wearing NO HELMETS...WTF The police can't even enforce a helmet law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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