Yesterday there were no road deaths but there were four accidents, all involving motorbikes, in which four people were hurt. All four were Thais, three from Phuket. The accidents, police said, were caused by drink driving and carelessly driving onto a main road from a side road. One of the victims was a man. The other three were women.
The Phuket Provincial Officer of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported this morning that of 2,453 drivers stopped at checkpoints during the first day, 388 – or 16 per cent – were found to be breaking the law in some way – driving without a license, not wearing a helmet, driving drunk, or driving vehicles with defective brakes, steering or lights.
In the rest of Thailand, 39 people died on the roads on the first day.