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Home » News from Thailand » Balance 'seven dangerous days': 380 killed and 3505 injured
Balance 'seven dangerous days': 380 killed and 3505 injured
Yesterday was the last day of the seven dangerous days on the road. More than 3.380 traffic accidents occurred during the New Year holidays.
Kritsada Boonrat, deputy chairman of Thailand's road safety center, took stock: 380 dead and 3.505 others injured in a seven-day period. This is a significant increase compared to last year when there were 341 road deaths.
Drunk driving was the main cause of road accidents (24%), followed by speeding (17%). Most accidents involve motorcycles (83,5%), followed by pick-up trucks (7,5%).
According to the World Health Organization WHO, 24.237 people die on the roads in Thailand every year.
Source: Bangkok Post – http://goo.gl/YMnyHZ
If these figures are correct, then the number of deaths during the “seven dangerous days” is not too bad
the annual average per day.
Just think: 380 : 7 = 54 deaths per day on average..
24.237 : 365 = 66 deaths per day on average
The “seven perilous days” thus appear to be slightly less perilous than the rest of the year.
But of course the numbers are horribly high.
Tom Corat
For the record: Of those 24.237 who do take 380 off, then on average (more than) 65 … Still chilling … 1nd most dangerous country in the world brrrrrrrrrrr
24237 deaths per year is an average of 466 per week.
If 7 deaths occur in those 380 'dangerous' days, that is not too bad in comparison.
It's just a calculation, but of course it's too bad for words.
Only the Thai will probably never learn it, certainly not the motorbikers.
24000 / 52 = 461 per week.
Then the measures around old and new will help.
So the other 51 weeks are MORE DANGEROUS.
Advice, buy a passenger car.
Well, as long as the driver's license here is a wash and nothing is done about it, road network, U-turns
scooters on the highway will never decrease. I also drove 600km plus from Isaan to the coast, you have to take those clowns into account the whole way, everything you think is not possible just happens. For example, merging at 20 km per hour, parking in a bend, etc. etc. Wisely, don't let my Thai woman drive. Sounds biased but that's the real situation here.
By "scooters on the highway" I assume you mean slow traffic.
I'm driving a Honda Click here. That thing has a cylinder capacity of 125cc and a top speed of about 100km/h.
Then I drive, with motorcycle gear of course, not along the side of the road, but to the right of the middle of the lane. This way I have more space and therefore more time to respond.
Apparently the economic damage is not great enough to separate slow and fast traffic.
A matter of putting the optimistic reactions in terms of deaths/day into perspective: there is certainly no account being taken of the number of people who have been seriously injured and therefore those who will still die in the coming weeks as a result of mainly brain injuries due to the defective crash helmets among the “motorcyclists”. ”.
Soon I will be on my motorcycle during my annual escape for my trip of approx. 4000 km. through Phayo, Nan, Phrae and the Mekong route to Sa Kaeo…..in the hope of survival.
2 years ago one of my riding companions died on the return to Chiang Mai and this remains burned on the retina and etched in my memory!
MVG
Bennie
Does anyone know how many people died and were injured during these dangerous days as a result of violence, whether or not under the influence?