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issue 3 96 23rd September 2016
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hua hin, THAILAND We make no excuses this week for returning to a topic that has featured many times on our front page, normally triggered by a fatality in a road accident, but this time by a report released this week by Ramathibodi Hospital’s Child Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Centre (CSIP), Dr Adisak Plitpolkarnpim, director of CSIP, said that over 15,800 Thai youngsters between the ages of 10 and 14 were injured, and about 700 killed each year from motorcycle accidents. This represents nearly two dead and over 43 injured every day, or 19 dead and 430 injured every 10 days. The death toll will increase to 31 in ten days during long vacations or festivals such as New Year and Songkran. Dr Adisak noted that these figures tend to increase every year, making Thailand the world’s Number One with the highest death toll from accidents involving motorcycles. He pointed the finger directly at parents as being the main ones responsible for the horrific statistics, but added that anyone who saw underage kids riding on motorcycles and did nothing about it are also to blame. While we at AWOL make him correct in his observations, we would not advise any of our readers to get directly involved in such situations unless they are the parent or know the children in question, as this could be taken the wrong way by some Thai parents, but the location and licence plate of repeat offenders could certainly be passed on to the police in the hope that they will deal with it. Much has been made in recent weeks of the response to the bombings, and the clampdown on serious crime in Hua Hin, but the fact remains that the roads are the most dangerous place for residents and tourists, as they have been for many years, and not just for young Thais.
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