PROVINCES where the least crashes have occurred include Phuket, Chonburi, Trat and Nonthaburi. Deaths totalled 255 for the first five days, with 2439 injured.


PHUKET: The province of Phuket enters the sixth day of the Seven Days of Danger road safety campaign today with no deaths reported yet in Phuket crashes.

Police and Phuket Public Health authorities continue to push for a Songkran New Year break free of road toll fatalities.

Statistically, Phuket averages about 11 deaths per month, based on the annual figures for 2011. The figures for 2012 have yet to be released.

So far after five days in the seven Days of Danger, Phuket has had 21 crashes resulting in 22 people being injured.

Eleven of those injured have been from Phuket, eight from other provinces and three are foreigners, as Phuketwan reported yesterday.

In a crash about 7.45pm yesterday, Thanakit Khawdamket, 46, lost control of his Toyota on a bend in Phuket's Thepkasattri Road north of the Phuket International Airport t-intersection.

He told rescuers that he lost control of the vehicle in wet conditions.

Across Thailand, 45 people were killed and 494 injured in 451 accidents on Sunday, the fourth day of the safety campaign, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported.