Authorities in Thailand are vowing to get serious about drunk driving throughout Songkran. Drunk drivers caught between Monday and Sunday next week, in the course of the time of the vacation, are more doubtless be jailed with out suspension if convicted. A police major general said yesterday that police recently discussed measures to discourage drunk driving with officers.
The major general mentioned police and officials agreed that courts shouldn’t droop jail phrases for drunk drivers. This information comes after Phuket Governor Narong has started planning this year’s Seven Days of Danger highway safety marketing campaign. Last yr, the marketing campaign focused on ending drunk driving and inspecting “risk points” where accidents had occurred. Dollar for Songkran this year is to have zero casualties.
Across Thailand final 12 months, 277 individuals have been killed, and a pair of,357 had been injured in nearly 2,400 highway accidents. Drunk driving was involved in more than one third of the accidents. Ever since a motorbike hit and killed an eye physician at a zebra crossing in Bangkok in January, a public debate has emerged on Thailand’s issues with pedestrian security.
Meanwhile, the Thai Red Cross Society urges the general public to donate blood during the holiday interval, when highway accidents are anticipated to surge. The director of the National Blood Centre mentioned the centre has been running low on blood reserves since January, they usually want blood to be used through the holidays..