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Safe roads not just for holidays
News, Editorial, Published on 06/01/2019
» The government's road safety promotion campaign during the New Year holidays, better known as the "seven dangerous days", ended with mixed results: the number of accidents fell slightly but the death toll was up to 463, which is a 9.5% increase from last year's figures.
Chiang Mai tops New Year traffic casualties
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 31/12/2018
» The first four of this year's "seven dangerous days" of New Year travel has seen 2,194 road accidents, 236 deaths and 2,265 people injured -- with Chiang Mai posting the highest number of accidents, deaths and injuries midway through the week-long travel spree.
Chiang Mai tops New Year traffic casualties
Online Reporters, Published on 31/12/2018
» The first four of this year's "seven dangerous days" of New Year travel has seen 2,194 road accidents, 236 deaths and 2,265 people injured -- with Chiang Mai posting the highest number of accidents, deaths and injuries midway through the week-long travel spree.
Day 1: 42 dead, 432 injured
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 28/12/2018
» Forty-two people were killed and more than 400 injured in road accidents across the country on Thursday, the first of the “seven dangerous days’ of the New Year holiday.
Day 1: 42 dead, 432 injured
Online Reporters, Published on 28/12/2018
» Forty-two people were killed and more than 400 injured in road accidents across the country on Thursday, the first of the “seven dangerous days" of the New Year holiday.
Road accident deaths swell to 1.35 million each year
AFP, Published on 07/12/2018
» GENEVA: Road accidents kill someone every 24 seconds, with a total of 1.35 million traffic deaths around the world each year, the World Health Organisation said Friday, demanding global action.
Fire in overhead cables disrupts traffic in Asok area
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 15/06/2018
» A brief fire in overhead communication cables near the Asok-Phetchaburi intersection blacked out traffic lights and caused major disruption before it was put out on Friday morning.
Fire in overhead cables disrupts traffic in Asok area
Online Reporters, Published on 15/06/2018
» A brief fire in overhead communication cables near the Asok-Phetchaburi intersection blacked out traffic lights and caused major congestion before it was extinguished on Friday morning.
Carnage: An analysis of Thailand's road safety
Spectrum, Published on 03/06/2018
» Every 22 minutes, a human being dies on Thailand's roads. At 24,000 deaths a year -- the equivalent of a small city -- traffic ends more lives prematurely in this country than strokes, Aids, any single kind of cancer, pneumonia, or diabetes.
Helmets not included
News, Postbag, Published on 29/05/2018
» I was somewhat heartened when I read the headline "Cops eye traffic offences points system", (BP, May 28).