The Evening Funnies

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the following appeared today in the Asean Now forum.

The chief of the Highway police was basking in the praise after receiving the top prize at a Thailand Road Safety seminar.

It was for road safety research, reported Siam Rath.

But as always there were plenty of fatal accidents on the deadly Thai roads with Thai Rath showing an inverted Camry in Chonburi today.

The country remains in the top ten in the world according to reports this week, an unwanted accolade that PM Prayuth Chan-ocha is keen to reverse, notes ASEAN NOW.

Highways chief Ekkarat Limsangkat said that law enforcement on the Thai roads was resulting in a reduction of accidents and ever improving safety.

ASEAN NOW notes that Ekkarat headed a commission that looked into the problems of safety on the roads and made recommendations as to how this might be improved and how changes in the law might be implemented and assist in this regard.
Now his focus was particularly on taking action against persistent road traffic violators who refuse to pay fines.
Sometime ignoring up to 70 tickets, suggested Siam Rath.
He intended to weed out these individuals for the benefit of all good drivers on the roads.

He cited the situation in Chiang Rai province in the north of Thailand where there were 1,237 people who had ten tickets or more.
He said this was good because there were 1.3 million people in the province and things were actually improving.

He stated that the police care about road safety and enforcement.
This came as Thai PM Prayuth instigated the latest moves to improve road safety over the next five years in particular so that by mid century Thailand could hold its head up with the best nations on earth in this regard, notes ASEAN NOW.
But the present reality on the roads came in the form of a Thai Rath picture, showing that much still needed to be done.
This was an upside down Toyota Camry that had hit a lamppost in Muang Chonburi.
Driver Peerapong had been given CPR at the scene but died from his injuries around 12.30 am this morning.

[FrazeeDK]

whatever happened to the electronic tickets that were talked about? Where a policeman would issue a citation, printing it out as it automatially went into a national database. The offender would be able to pay the ticket at an easy pay locsation or via electronic transfer rather than handing cash to the issuing officer.. Then, with the citation in the national database it would be cross-linked to Land Transport who would refuse to issue an annual tax stamp until the offender went to the police station and paid the fines along with late penalties. No cash, no corruption?

[papafarang]

whatever happened to the electronic tickets that were talked about? Where a policeman would issue a citation, printing it out as it automatially went into a national database. The offender would be able to pay the ticket at an easy pay locsation or via electronic transfer rather than handing cash to the issuing officer.. Then, with the citation in the national database it would be cross-linked to Land Transport who would refuse to issue an annual tax stamp until the offender went to the police station and paid the fines along with late penalties. No cash, no corruption?

just tell them you don't have a license, you cant get banned from driving if you don't have a license . TiT