Sharp rise in road accidents in first three days of ‘seven dangerous days’
The number of road accidents and casualties on the last three days of 2016 showed a sharp increase over the previous year, a police spokesman said Sunday.
Between Thursday and Saturday, 1,961 road accidents were reported nationwide, as millions of people travelled upcountry during the long New Year holidays, according to Royal Thai Police deputy spokesman Pol Colonel Krisana Pattanacharoen.
He said the number of fatalities was 270 – 15.9 per cent, higher than in the same period in the previous year.
The number of deaths caused by road accidents totalled 199 on the first three days of the “seven dangerous days” of the police watch period, 21 deaths more than last
year, or 11.8 per cent higher, according to Krisana.
Also, the number of people injured in road accidents during the New Year festive period totalled 2,099 on the last three days of 2016, 344 people – or 19.6 per cent – higher than in the same period the previous year, he said.
