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Thailand promotes helmet-wearing among motorcyclists during New Year festival
BANGKOK, Dec 25 (TNA) - Thailand’s metropolitan police, together with the Child Safety Research Centre at Ramathibodhi Hospital and Ratchathewi District Office in Bangkok, have jointly launched a road-safety campaign in the capital--with motorcyclists urging to always wear helmets, even among backseat riders.
Young activists gathered near Bangkok’s Victory Monument on Saturday (Dec 25)--in a mock-up dress as ‘injured motorcyclists’--to hand out leaflets calling on motorcyclists to put on safety helmets for themselves and for backseat riders, including children, to avoid road injuries and fatalities in the upcoming New Year season--when road accidents normally hit a record-high, coming second only to the toll during the Songkran, or the traditional Thai New Year festival in mid-April.
Meanwhile, the Thai Cabinet recently endorsed a 7-day integrated plan for the prevention and reduction of road accidents across the country during the New Year season, from December 29, 2010 to January 4, 2011, proposed by a national centre for road safety under the Ministry of Interior's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, aimed to reduce road accidents, death toll and injuries during the nationwide New Year celebrations by 5 per cent year-on-year, or to some 3,357 cases, from 3,534 cases last year, with highway deaths and injuries to a maximum of 330 and 3,636 cases respectively, from 347 and 3,827 cases last year.
Measures to reduce the road accidents, deaths and injuries under the official plan include setting up road accident prevention and reduction centres at provincial and district levels, check-points at major and alternative routes and public support units in a number of areas and communities normally visited by holidaymakers. (TNA)
Young activists gathered near Bangkok’s Victory Monument on Saturday (Dec 25)--in a mock-up dress as ‘injured motorcyclists’--to hand out leaflets calling on motorcyclists to put on safety helmets for themselves and for backseat riders, including children, to avoid road injuries and fatalities in the upcoming New Year season--when road accidents normally hit a record-high, coming second only to the toll during the Songkran, or the traditional Thai New Year festival in mid-April.
Meanwhile, the Thai Cabinet recently endorsed a 7-day integrated plan for the prevention and reduction of road accidents across the country during the New Year season, from December 29, 2010 to January 4, 2011, proposed by a national centre for road safety under the Ministry of Interior's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, aimed to reduce road accidents, death toll and injuries during the nationwide New Year celebrations by 5 per cent year-on-year, or to some 3,357 cases, from 3,534 cases last year, with highway deaths and injuries to a maximum of 330 and 3,636 cases respectively, from 347 and 3,827 cases last year.
Measures to reduce the road accidents, deaths and injuries under the official plan include setting up road accident prevention and reduction centres at provincial and district levels, check-points at major and alternative routes and public support units in a number of areas and communities normally visited by holidaymakers. (TNA)
