No deaths on day five of Phuket’s Seven Days of Danger

PHUKET: The island escaped another day in the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign without a single death yesterday.

By the end of day five, at midnight last night, 49 people had been injured in a total of 48 road accidents, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket office (DDPM-Phuket), which collates all road accident statistics in Phuket during the campaign.

Yesterday saw a spike in the number of accidents as the total jumped from 33 to 48. Eight of yesterday’s accidents were related to driving under the influence of alcohol.

Police manning checkpoints throughout the island ramped up their efforts and by midnight last night had checked a total of 15,052 vehicles and caught 2,908 people committing traffic offenses.

— Kongleaphy Keam