Five Down, Two to Go

The above picture is from todays The Nation English Language Newspaper.

The caption read: A Bangkok convenience story stocks up with alcoholic

drinks for the final days of Songkran.

On Tuesday there were 677 road accidents, 47 killed and 677 injured. This brings the Friday through Tuesday totals to 3,357 road accidents, 276 dead and 3,992 injured.

Not only do Thai have a hard time avoiding road accidents they also have a hard time at railway crossings and with their bus system. The Bangkok Post yesterday reported that in 2007 there were 327 cars hit by trains, injuries and deaths were not reported. They also managed to hit 182 animals during this is period. They didn't say what animals. I would guess most were water buffalo and cows that wanderer onto the tracks.

Also, so far this year there have been 2,949 bus accidents resulting in 229 deaths, with 3,315 injured. That is in just a three and a half month period. That seems like a lot to me.

So much for the safety factor of public transportation.