PUBLISHED : 15 Apr 2024 at 13:19
Site visitors accidents from April 11 to 14 claimed 162 lives and injured 1,279 others, with holidaymakers beginning to return to their workplaces on Monday.
Assistant nationwide police chief Pol Lt Gen Kornchai Klaiklueng stated on Monday that the April 11-14 interval fashioned 4 days of the federal government’s highway security marketing campaign week for the Songkran Thai New 12 months pageant. Through the interval, there have been 1,259 site visitors accidents.
In keeping with him, Nakhon Si Thammarat had the very best site visitors accidents, 50, and the biggest variety of these injured, 54. Bangkok and Roi Et recorded the very best loss of life toll, 10 every.
On Sunday April 14 alone, there have been 317 site visitors accidents, 38 fatalities and 311 folks injured. On that day Nan noticed the very best numbers of accidents, 14, and people injured, 16. Nakhon Sawan recorded the very best loss of life toll at three.
Pol Lt Gen Kornchai stated some folks began to return to workplaces in Bangkok and different regional financial hubs, and site visitors volumes have been thus increase on nationwide highways.
Chaiwat Chuntirapong, director-general of the Division of Catastrophe Prevention and Mitigation, stated on Monday that the numbers of accidents, fatalities and injured folks have been decrease than throughout final yr’s Songkran pageant.
Ruangsak Suwaree, director-general of the Probation Division, stated that from April 11 to 14 there have been 3,890 circumstances of site visitors violation prosecution and drink-driving fashioned 96% of them. Bangkok had essentially the most circumstances of drink-driving, 399, adopted by Nonthaburi, 227, and Samut Prakan, 214.
United Nations figures present that in reality, a median of about 55 folks die every single day of the yr following accidents on Thai roads.
