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  • 2 road deaths during Phuket’s Songkran ‘Seven Dangerous Days’

    2 road deaths during Phuket’s Songkran ‘Seven Dangerous Days’

    Phuket police have announced 2 deaths and 48 injuries from 47 road accident during this year’s extended Songkran Festival and the holiday from April 11 – 17.

  • PM Prayut thanks everyone for “ensuring public safety” over Songkran

    PM Prayut thanks everyone for “ensuring public safety” over Songkran

    From the National News Bureau of Thailand… “The Prime Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, thanked all sides, including volunteers, for ensuring public safety during this year’s Songkran festival

  • Phuket was fatality-free after first three days of Songkran reporting period

    Phuket was fatality-free after first three days of Songkran reporting period

    Day Three official numbers are in and Phuket remains, as of Friday night, fatality free. The “Seven Dangerous Days” reporting period runs from last Wednesday through to this Tuesday night

  • Day Three – the carnage continues

    Day Three – the carnage continues

    The accumulated road death toll for the first three days (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) of the so-called ‘Seven Dangerous Days’ over the Songkran holiday, rose to 188 at the end of Friday, the Road Safety Centre announced today. Pol Maj-General Ekkarak Limsangkart, commander of the Special Branch Police Division 3, said the first three days of the road accidents monitoring period from April 11 saw 1,848 accidents, killing 188 people and injuring 1,934 others. Friday, alone, saw 820 accidents, killing 88 people and injuring 852 others

  • DAY FOUR. Nearly 60 people dying each day during the Seven Dangerous Days.

    DAY FOUR. Nearly 60 people dying each day during the Seven Dangerous Days.

    After four days, the official death toll for the ‘Seven Dangerous Days’ reporting period is 239 with 2,500 injuries.  The statistics are compiled by the Road Safety Centre. On Sunday, new year’s eve, 65 people were killed and 714 were injured in 678 separate traffic incidents. Drink driving remains the scourge of Thailand’s roads causing most of fatal accidents.