Forty-eight individuals have been killed and 411 others have been injured in highway accidents on Saturday, bringing the whole lifeless and injured for 3 days of Songkran to 116 and 968 respectively in 936 highway accidents.
40.05% of the accidents have been brought on by dashing, 27.81% concerned drunk driving and 16.84% have been brought on by chopping in. 85.50% of the accidents concerned bikes and 81.63% occurred on straight routes.
Nakhon Si Thammarat and Songkhla provinces recorded the very best variety of highway accidents in three days, at 19 every. Bangkok had the very best dying toll within the three days, with eight, whereas Songkhla had 45 injured.
Chaiwat Chuntirapong, director-general of the Public Catastrophe Prevention and Mitigation Division, stated in the present day that officers had adjusted preventive measures, to correspond with the realities on the bottom, by specializing in secondary roads and communities, the place motorcyclists have a tendency to interact in dashing, with out carrying crash helmets and after consuming alcohol.
