Songkran road toll already at 29

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Songkran road toll already at 29

Published: 12/04/2011 at 11:55 AM
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Twenty-nine people were killed in road accidents yesterday, the first of the "seven dangerous days" of the Songkran holiday, from April 11 to 17, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Tuesday.

Nonthaburi, Ayutthaya and Prachuap Khiri Khan provinces had the highest number of road fatalities at three each.About 400 people were injured in road accidents yesterday.Ayutthaya province had the most injured people at 22.Most accidents, or about 30.14 per cent, were...

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pointoffew
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Discussion 3 : 12/04/2011 at 07:00 PM3
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banmebkk, discussion 2, your comment seems aimed at my first comment, although I did not 'predict' anything.

My comment is partly based on statistics of the provincial hospital of Nakhon Rachasima, which ON AVERAGE receives more than 50 people injured in traffic accidents a day. The same hospital informed me that the AVERAGE number of fatalities in Nakhon Rachasima alone is more than 2 a day.

Look at demographic and traffic statistics for Nakhon Rachasima, do the maths, and you and I will agree that it is safe to assume that the number of fatalities nationwide is closer to 30,000 per year than to the official number of 10,000 and the number of injured certainly exceeds 1,000 on an average day - although the definition of injured is perhaps (even) more vague than that of a fatality...
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Discussion 2 : 12/04/2011 at 05:29 PM2
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The numbered of injured in the thousands that you predicted is yet another bunch of incorrect data that you picked from your head without evidence backing it.
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Discussion 1 : 12/04/2011 at 12:35 PM1
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The first statistics of a series which is certain to become yet another bunch of incorrect data.

On an average day, an estimated 80 people die nationwide in Thai traffic. However, many, including those who don't die on the spot, but on their way to or in hospital, are excluded - for whatever reason.

The number of injured is likely closer to thousand than "400" a day - on average.
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