New Year exodus starts, traffic (and carnage) builds up on Thai roads

[Nereus]

Chiang Mai still No.1 for road accidents

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The first five of the "seven dangerous days" of New Year travel has seen 2,761 road accidents, 314 deaths and 2,848 people injured -- with Chiang Mai posting the highest number of accidents, while Nakhon Ratchasima has suffered the most deaths.

Prapon Tangsrikiattikul, the deputy permanent secretary for public health, said on Tuesday that on Monday, the fifth day of the seven-day New Year travel period, there were 569 road accidents which killed 72 people and injured 591 others.

The most common cause remained drink driving -- which led to 44.82% of Monday's accidents -- followed by speeding (29.88%). Motorcycles were involved in 81.62% of the accidents, followed by pickup trucks (6.24%). The most accident-prone time was between 4pm and 8pm.

On Monday, the highest number of accidents was 23 in Nakhon Si Thammarat. The highest number of injured people was 27 in the same province. The highest one-day death toll was four in Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani.

The figures showed that Thailand's roads were slightly less lethal than over the same five-day period last year.

Over the four days, Chiang Mai recorded the highest number of accidents -- 91. The highest death toll was in Nakhon Ratchasima, with 14 fatalities, and the largest number of injured people -- 96 -- was in Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Authorities and volunteers are stepping up measures and deploying more medics as travellers return to Bangkok from home visits or vacation.

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[Nereus]

Road toll continues to rise as revellers return to work

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The annual New Year holiday is seeing another rise in the number of deaths on the roads, although the number of accidents and injuries is down on last year, so far.

Six days into the seven dangerous days road safety campaign, 410 had people had died in road accidents, an increase of 7% on the same period of last year, according to the Road Safety Directing Centre that monitors the situation.

On a positive note, the number of accidents had dropped slightly, by 0.9%, to 3,425 and the number of people injured was down 2.4% to 3,516.
The seven-day period started on Dec 27 and ends on Wednesday night. The final statistics will be released on Thursday.

Nakhon Ratchasima had the highest accumulated death toll with 24, while Nakhon Si Thammarat had the most accidents, at 109, and the most reported injured, with 127 people.

One of the worst accidents was a crash involving a car and a pickup truck in Phimsai district of Nakhon Ratchasima on Tuesday, which took the lives of all five people returning to Bangkok in the sedan after merit-making ceremony at a nearby temple.

Nakhon Ratchasima governor Wichien Chantharanothai on Wednesday called for stricter law enforcement to reduce the accident rate with revellers returning to their workplaces after the long break.

Drink driving was still seen as the major single cause of accidents, followed by speeding, while the majority of accidents involved motorcycles, as in past years, according to the centre.

Lt Gen Somsak Somrak, chief of the Directorate of Civil Affairs, told a media briefing all provinces have been instructed to check motorists for alcohol and drug use, to get them off the roads.

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[RCer]

How do the holiday numbers compare with every other day of the year?

[buksida]

They're about the same - the average for Thailand is about 67 per day.

[Nereus]

New Year death toll up despite lower accident numbers

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The road death toll during the New Year holidays rose 9.5% year-on-year to 463, even as the numbers of accidents and injuries fell.

From Dec 27 last year to Wednesday, 3,791 road accidents took place, down 1.3% from last year’s levels while 3,892 were hospitalised, down 2.8%, according to data from the Road Safety Directing Centre on Thursday.

The period, also known as the seven dangerous days, was designated to promote road safety for travel during New Year holidays.

Nakhon Ratchasima, the gateway to the Northeast, saw the highest number of road fatalities (25) while Nakhon Si Thammarat of the South saw the highest numbers of accidents (118) and injuries (137).

Four provinces reported no road fatalities -- Tak, Phrae, Satun and Samut Songkhram.
Drink driving remained the major cause (40.4%), followed by speeding (28.3%).
Motorcycles were most prone to accidents (80%), followed by pickup trucks (7%) and cars (4.1%).
The time of the day when most accidents occurred was 4pm to 8pm (9.3%), followed by noon to 2pm (17.8%).
By age group, those aged 50 or more led (24.5%), followed by those between 30-39.

Some 1.2 million were prosecuted, up 34.3% from the previous year. The main charges were not wearing helmets, up 27.6% year-on-year to 321,800 cases, followed by driving with a licence, up 21.5% to 290,000.

[HHTel]

Some 1.2 million were prosecuted, up 34.3% from the previous year. The main charges were not wearing helmets, up 27.6% year-on-year to 321,800 cases, followed by driving with a licence, up 21.5% to 290,000.

Unfortunate typo..... or is it? There's probably more without a licence than those with a licence. Prosecute the ones with a licence as there are less of them........ lol

[buksida]

You can almost start profiling from those stats though they dont break down by gender.

The most likely causes of accidents and fatalities will be old man Sombat on his motorbike, riding about after consuming half a bottle of Lao Khao in some Issan village.

Second to that will be the younger speed freaks high on meth driving those smoke belching pickups covered in stickers with no regard for anything else on the road.

More arrests = more deaths. Go figure Thailand!