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PHUKET: Police have warned motorists to drive carefully in wet, slippery conditions on Phuket's roads - and a crash yesterday showed what can happen.
One pickup moved to overtake another on a well-known curve in Phuket's south, at the ascent of the road from Chalong to Karon.
The vehicles crashed, and one of the pickups headed on, into a telegraph pole.
Two men were injured and one, suffering cuts and possible neck injuries, was taken to a Phuket hospital for treatment.
With heavy rain predited to fall across Phuket for the next four days, police today warned motorists to drive slowly and carefully in perillous conditions.
The Phuket Public Health Department is spearheading a campaign to cut the Phuket roads death toll from 116 last year to 50 a year by 2015.
The monthly statistics published by Phuketwan for more than three years showed a positive trend downwards in both the road toll and the drownings toll.
However, Public Health has chosen not to release monthly statistics since April. This means that Phuketwan's readers are unlikely to know whether moves to reduce the road toll are proving successful or not.
Drownings on Phuket have also gradually been reduced.
But eight tourists drowned on popular Phuket between mid-May and mid-July, tragedies that demonstrated there are times of the year when more needs to be done.
I passed by this accident just after it happened. There was just enough light rain to moisten the roads, which as anyone that does much motorcycle riding knows will make the roads very slippery. A hard rain is better. Just after this accident, a farang crashed just behind me coming down into Kata, then another friend showed up also just crashed on the hill, and there was yet another report of a pile-up on the Kata side soon after that. A light momentary rain makes that hill very very slippery, especially after a period of dry whether and oil has collected on the road surface.
Posted by NomadJoe on September 26, 2012 13:14