Drink drive law gets tough

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Drink drive law gets tough

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Now, whether or not they'll enforce it to the letter is yet to be seen. I would proceed with caution though as I don't think they'll exempt farangs, unless the Bank of the Car Window has a large sum on deposit.

They don't state the dates but in past years I think the official period runs from about Dec. 25 to Jan. 5. Pete :cheers:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... -jail-term
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"About 84% of the accidents involved motorcycles while drink driving was responsible for 41% of crashes, Mr Surasit said."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... -jail-term

This article is very disturbing. Given that only 41% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers it follows that 59% of accidents are caused by sober drivers. This degree of sobriety surely cannot be tolerated in a modern day Thailand.

And, it also seems quite apparent to me, that if 84% of the accidents involve motor cycles why do people simply not drive in cars / commercial vehicles where the accident rate is, by deduction, only 16%.

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Not sure I agree with you completely HT

Are you sayiong that 59% of accidents, caused by sober drivers it too high? Surely the ideal would be for 100% of accidents to be caused by sober drivers - i.e. no drunk drivers on the road.

You say that because a huge percentage of accidents involved motorcycles, then all should switch to cars. Then cars would be involved in 100% of accidents - what should they switch to then?

What the numbers don't state is how many involved people with a real driving licience? How many involved people with a truly roadworthy vehicle, how many accidents involed traffic violations (speeding, driving on wrong side of road etc.. How many of the motircyclists died becuase they did not wear a helmet. This is maybe more significant.

However, I beleive that Thai people drive, ride and die the way they do, becuase basically none of these issues are really important to them. Its much more of 'luck' thing for them.
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Winkie, I think HT's post was a bit tongue in cheek, not to be taken seriously.
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Oh!!!!!

Maybe I'm in need of a trip to the bar also!

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It is true though that once you get into the Thai countryside there is a dreadful death toll from youngsters drink driving on motorbikes.
But as pointed out above since most of them are on the road in an illegal state to start with, they're hardly going to take notice of any drink driving campaign.
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HT is on the mark, if only sober drivers were able to drive in the same state of weaviness as those whose sobriety is questionable there would be a decrease in road trauma and deaths as they would manage to dodge the snake like motions of people in the other vehicles! As everybody knows it is a Thais god given right to drive your motor sai or blacked out windowed ute as fast as you can in a straight line oblivious of anything around you!
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