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Songkran Day 5: Phuket still free of road deaths

Songkran Day 5: Phuket still free of road deaths

PHUKET: The island continued its remarkably death-free road record yesterday, the fifth day in the “Seven Days of Danger” Songkran road accident period, with no one killed on the roads.

Tuesday 16 April 2013 09:02 AM


There were three accidents yesterday (April 15), with three people being taken to hospital.

Phuket’s record over the five days is 21 accidents, 22 injuries and no deaths.

The national numbers, however, are grim, with 393 accidents yesterday, 419 people hospitalised and 35 deaths, bringing the totals for the five days to 251 dead (an average of 3.3 per province) and 2,439 injured.