Obituaries of tourists and expats can regularly be heard through the various media. The Ministry of Tourism keeps statistics. These statistics come from 10 regional offices.
According to this data, at least 2015 foreign tourists died and 83 were injured in 166. Traffic is the most dangerous with 34 deaths. 9 tourists died from water sports, 6 people from disease, 4 people from suicide and 30 deaths from unspecified causes. However, the accuracy of these numbers is questionable.
In Pattaya, the number of (suicide) murders among tourists is higher if you believe the media. Australia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also comes with other numbers. For example, between July 2014 and June 2015, at least 109 Australian citizens died in Thailand. As contradictory as the numbers may be, the Thai government is now going to pay serious attention to it. Pongnapu from the Ministry of Tourism and Sports will now deal with this theme and come up with solutions where possible. In Krabi there will be a discussion about the tourists involved in water sports accidents. Measures will be taken in Chiang Mai to reduce accident statistics.
The most dangerous areas of Thailand are mapped: the Tawan Beach on Koh Larn near Pattaya, Chaweng Beach on Koh Samui, Koh Hae near Phuket. Then the roads with the most accidents: Highway 1095 from Chang Mai to Pai in Mae Hong Son. Highway 118 from Chang Mai to Chang Rai, Highway 2258 and 2296 to Khao Khor in Petchabun and Highway 4233 to and from Karon in Puket.
Nearly 30 million tourists came to Thailand last year, but on an index of the safest tourist countries in the world, Thailand was ranked 132 out of 141 countries. In Asia, Thailand was in last place. Only when two Russian tourists at Koh Phi Phi were seriously injured because they were run over by a speedboat did the Thai government get involved. Other tragic events include the death of 24-year-old Luke Miller (he was found dead in the swimming pool) and on the same island of Koh Tao the murders of Hannah Witheridge (23) and David Miller (24). Two suspects from Burma are said to have committed these murders.
Undoubtedly, the efforts of the governments of India and China, after problems with their citizens in Thailand, will have helped to move the Thai government to a more active stance in the field of security.
A good initiative. At least it opens eyes to the problem.
In Laos, a backpackers attraction has been closed for that reason, drinking down the river with a tube.
A topic of conversation is also often the large number of people who “fall” from a balcony.
I think it also plays a role in this that these kinds of things are immediately brought to the media in Thailand. Then you read about it more often.
Personally, I know of 2 fairly recent cases in the Netherlands where someone robbed himself of his life by jumping off a flat.
Nothing can be found in the media about this, only an ambulance/fire brigade call in the list of 112 reports. A short message on a local news site reporting an accident had disappeared from the website the next day.
So it happens here more often than you might think.
Dear,
I have been coming to Thailand for 3 years and cycle a lot. The first year I was bitten by a stray dog. I was in the hospital for 15 days. There are few or no days when I do not have to get off the bike to calm down the dogs, sometimes up to 30 or wait until help will come so I can continue cycling safely.
My beautiful friend takes her children to school with her moped 2 months ago. When she returns, a dog runs into her front wheel, resulting in many bruises and abrasions with permanent scars on her face and left knee still not in order.
what if the kids were there?
I AM AN ANIMAL FRIEND
regards guy
Thailand is going to work on security, the sad thing is that this should be done on the basis of an attitude aimed at precisely that. Take a good look around you, what awareness is there, what idea that certain things are not safe? A police force that makes unsafe situations “disappear” by letting the perpetrator buy off for the occasion if something is detected anyway does not really help either. How many convictions are there that give others the idea that they should take a closer look at their affairs in terms of safety so that the sense of standards can be raised to a higher level? There is a long way to go and thinking will have to be adjusted considerably, and the moment it starts to cost money, it will soon stop in Thailand.
Like most things, the Thai will not solve this problem. In terms of security, there is the police and politics that are not functioning in any way. The police just aren't doing their job. Handing out stupid traffic fines in the same places for minor offenses while the most scandalous offenses are being committed at a short distance. Politicians come up with ideas to have offenders work in a mortuary or to make the requirements for the driving test more difficult, as the owlet suggested yesterday. Nothing comes of it. The biggest problem is probably: no brains.
It's the person who is the problem, and a helmet or making you aware of the vulnerability of you on a 2 wheeler is hard to find there. It sometimes seems as if a human life is not worth much there.
Then you can grumble at the police or the government, but if the citizen doesn't care about that, then the government cannot do much, and it's a waste of time.
We have to realize that people are still 40 years behind in many things such as safety and the environment and that it will take another 2 generations before they are at the level we are now, but well we want to change everything in one day ... and if it doesn't have the same standard as we have now then it's not good we think. But on the other hand, we really like that everything is very cheap there and then safety, environment or hygiene are not so important anymore.
Completely disagree with this story. It is indeed the government and the police who must set rules and then enforce them. If that happens, the number of road deaths will drop by 50 percent in no time. But that doesn't happen here. So it remains a mess. And we can continue to mop with the tap open. The nonsense about being 40 years behind is a non-argument, and we don't want to change anything, the Thais will really have to do that themselves.
So cake.
There are many dangerous situations in Thailand, what do you think of a propane gas filling station, in a row with various shops or as a market stall, in the middle of a daily market. Or like in the Soi 14 next to a busy 7-eleven.
Incredible anyway.
The local gas cylinder dealer lives in our village, including his complete trading stock. Just opposite the village primary school.
It can not be more beautiful .
Jan Beute.