165 deaths reported in first three days of “seven high risk travel days”

BANGKOK, Jan 1 – Seventy one persons were killed in road accidents across Thailand on New Year’s Eve, raising the cumulative number of fatalities for the first three days of the “seven high risk travel days” during the New Year holiday season to 165, according to the Road Safety Centre.

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation’s Road Safety Centre, at a daily press briefing chaired by Department of Probation deputy director general Chalong Atikanit, reported that 650 driving accidents occurred on New Year’s Eve, leaving 731 persons injured.

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