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Home » News from Thailand » Again many deaths from driving under the influence during New Year's holidays
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The first three days of the New Year's holiday proves to be another bloodbath on the road. 1.504 accidents, with 159 deaths and 1.549 injuries, were recorded. Bangkok has the highest number of road deaths, almost always due to drunk driving.
The highest death toll was reported in Bangkok, with 10 fatalities, but most accidents were reported in the northern province of Lampang (48). Nakhon Pathom province reported the most injuries in road accidents over the three days (56).
On Sunday alone there were 531 road accidents, 47 deaths and 560 injuries. Driving under the influence of alcohol is the most common cause at 32%, followed closely by speeding offenses (31%).
Source: Bangkok Post
This is carrying water to the sea, they still don't learn it and they never will learn it. Drinking and cars don't go together, not to mention the motorbike, but that's also because no one opens their mouth and says don't drive because then you have there is a chance that he will come back with a gun and shoot you in the head, but drunk people are not capable of reason, so it will continue to be a lot of sadness and bloodshed before it comes to an end or perhaps never, bhuda will know. not me .
I now leave freedom to all “rose-colored glasses” viewers, for whom the glass is more and more half full than half empty… but one thing is clear: the Thais are simply “underdeveloped” in traffic, they behave like wild drunken projectiles on the road. gone…”Me First!…Me First!…” The bigger the car, the more reckless…Just look at the accidents with the “FORTUNERS”…with Thai drivers in which completely incompetent, unhinged idiots cause accidents in which people are killed…Every year again , now at New Year's, and within 4 months at Songkran..
in Chiang Rai there were alcohol checks if you got caught and a fine
in serious cases prison sentence 7 days everyone had to go to court (quick court)
I heard it was very busy so be careful not to drink yourself
There is nothing as hypocritical as global drug policy. As long as people do not want to accept that the most dangerous most addictive drug is the one we promote and idolize, nothing will change.
We prance when we hear talk about Ecstasy weed Khat or even Coke…but we don't want to hear a bad word about Alcohol.Of course not…all drugs are bad but not mine.
Even with 3.000.000 deaths per year, we continue to insist that Alcohol is a harmless substance, while in some countries good people still have to go to prison for years for a joint.
Many even literally go berserk when you point out the dangers of alcohol to them.
Own fault.
1 the death numbers mentioned here are the deaths that fall directly on the road. About the same number of people die on the way to and in the hospital.
2 on all other days the death rate is not that much less, maybe 10-20%
3 85% of the deaths are scooter riders and most deaths occur on secondary roads and not on main roads
4 in the seventies the number of road deaths in the Netherlands was 2/3 of the number in Thailand now. The Dutch were then 'underdeveloped'.
I think there should be much more emphasis on the infrastructure: roundabouts, away with U-turns, separation of slow and fast traffic, speed limiters on scooters, separate traffic lights for slow and fast traffic.
I used to have to fight with my wife when she wanted to drive drunk. No one else did anything.
During this period, I drive my new PCX to my choice of restaurant in the early evening or late afternoon. The idiots who overtake other cars left and right with a lot of bravura or try to make it clear with a lot of hooting and clamor and light signals that they are in a hurry and with a car full including the loading platform there is a lot of clamor
making “beyond it” wanting. After my early meal without drink I return home and drink a glass of wine to the happy ending, AND YOU???
I just stay home and only go out if there really is no other way.
For many Thais, socializing and alcohol belong together. I was once invited to come to a “party” in the middle of the day. When I said I wouldn't drink alcohol because I still had to drive later that afternoon, the afternoon invitation was canceled but I was welcome in the evening because they didn't think it would be fun without alcohol.
Party, drink and then drive home is not a problem, is it? YES, yes for me!
PS The "party" was within walking distance, so I went back home afterwards with the leg car.