30 killed in road accidents on Thursday
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A total of 30 people were killed in road accidents on Wednesday, the first of "seven dangerous Songkran holidays", the Road Safety Centre announced Thursday.
Wibul Sanguanpong, director general of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department who is the secretary of the centre, told a press conference that 343 road accidents occurred Wednesday, in which 373 people were injured.
Phichit saw the highest death toll with five people killed.
Nakhon Si Thammarat became the province with the highest number of accidents or 20 accidents happened on the first day.
So far, 60 provinces have no road-accident fatality.
The centre said drunk driving was the biggest cause of accident. It said 30.90 per cent of the accidents were caused by drunk driving. The second causde was violations of speed limit. The centre said 19.83 per cent of the accidents involved violations of speed limit.
And up to 82.87 per cent of the accidents involved motorcycles while 7.30 per cent involved pick-up trucks.
Wibul said the authorities would try to minimize the road accidents by preventing drunk driving violations of speed limits and making sure that motorcyclists wear crash helmets.
Wibul said 16 provinces saw on accidents happen on Wednesday.
