Poll: Carelessness caused accidents

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Poll: Carelessness caused accidents

Published: 6 Jan 2013 at 10.47
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Thais believe carelessness on the part of drivers was the primary cause of road accidents during the New Year, Suan Dusit Poll revealed on Sunday.

The poll was conducted on 1,285 people in Bangkok and nearby provinces between Jan 3-5 to gauge their opinion on the high New Year death toll from road accidents.

Most, or 44.83%, of the respondents thought the accidents were mainly caused by carelessness on the part of the drivers who did not respect traffic laws, while 21.07% said it was a normal occurrence during a long holiday, 20.69% said the lives lost were a family tragedy and 13.41% said the death toll was still high - even though authorities had worked hard to prevent accidents - because of the higher number of road users.

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CMfarang
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Discussion 12 : 06 Jan 2013 at 22.3912
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The speed limit around Chiang Mai moat is 60 kph. There are guys on motorbikes without helmets going well over 100 kph and weaving in and out of traffic (on any given night). No consideration for others, complete idiots, future organ donors.
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Discussion 11 : 06 Jan 2013 at 18.0911
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Why not ask those who should know, eg. highway/traffic/safety engineers?
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Discussion 10 : 06 Jan 2013 at 17.5310
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People like to say alcohol is number 1 cause of accidents and speeding number 2. However, speeding is generally the main cause of fatal accidents. And many Thais love to speed even though they really don't have the experience to do it properly. Speed decreases the amount of time drivers have to response and alcohol slows the ability to respond.
When you mix speeding and drinking, even not drunk, you beg for serious, life threatening trouble. The message is if you are stupid enough to drink and drive, slow down, don't speed up. If you must drive, best to sit a couple of hours drinking water before hitting the road.
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Discussion 9 : 06 Jan 2013 at 16.199
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The main reason in my opinion is Education , consideration and Alcohol!
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Discussion 8 : 06 Jan 2013 at 15.028
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Let us also know that, not only drunk driving causes accident. Picking up a moble phone to answer or make a calls can also be the reason of accident, like wise kissing in a car, changing DVD or track can cause accident, there should be a workshop set up in every district to educates driver about accident, there are people who even come out angryly after having problem with family or friends. Like wise too much horn is not good when driving, it confuses people, there's lot more, only educating drivers will help reduce accident.
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Discussion 7 : 06 Jan 2013 at 14.547
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obviously it should. The sleeping dogs has nothing to do with it. Onething is the Thai attitudes of driving like the King of the road. Their false ego superceded their instinct feeling of safety above all.
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Discussion 6 : 06 Jan 2013 at 13.336
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The questions mix so mix options as to be useles: accidents are caused by either not following rules or drinking and driving = 44.83% - so how much each?

Most depressing are the childish solutions proffered:
Drivers must be more serious, more thoughful of others and more careful = 34.7%. The perfection of vagueness to the point of utter simple-minded uselessness here is amazing. THis vacuous inanity is not a suggestion for improvement at all: it could mean anything so actually means nothing.

What percentage of Thai people think that they can reason critically about anything? (Yes, we know it's often strictly illegal to think critica
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Discussion 5 : 06 Jan 2013 at 13.005
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Thailand has good road law, trouble is no one knows what it is. When you can "buy' your license why learn the road code. When the police did the same how can they lead by example. When you see a policeman directing traffic outside a school stooping cars for motorcycles coming out of the school grounds with 3 or children per m/bike with no helmets. When no one stops for pedestrian "zebra" crossings in fact most Thais think they are marked off to park 4x4's. The list goes on. Maybe proper training programs from specialist teachers & police coming to the school and having the children ride bicycles & explaining what they did wrong.
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Discussion 4 : 06 Jan 2013 at 11.544
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Carelessness! Nonsense. The reason is incompetence and ignorance.
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Discussion 3 : 06 Jan 2013 at 11.503
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Wow, now there's a brilliant deduction. Drunk people driving recklessly caused most of the accidents by being careless! I often wonder about many things over here after 6 years but cannot understand why these huge beer halls open two months before the holidays in front of every major mall catering to young people who think they are invincible anyway. According to the law any display that encourages drinking is forbidden so how do these places get around that one!
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