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Get money and make Thai roads safe! Transport minister offers 50% of all fines

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Get money and make Thai roads safe! Transport minister offers 50% of all fines

 

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Thai caption: Get a 50% kickback

 

Ever wondered how to get your own back on the taxi driver who refuses your fare - now you can get 500 baht. 

 

That would be the 50% payoff from the standard 1,000 baht fine under a new scheme being introduced by the Department of Land Transport.

 

Transport minister Saksayam Chidchob said this scheme was a key element of measures set to be announced by the DLT next Monday. 

 

The public can get 50% of all fines from offences committed by public transport vehicles and private vehicles. 

 

(Sanook suggested that this referred to all private vehicles not just private vehicles run by drivers employed by services such as Grab. There was thus a lack of clarity in this regard, notes Thaivisa). 

 

Each person will be limited to earning 30,000 baht through the reporting of offences.

 

Sanook said that this means the public could earn money for reporting offences such as poor service, cleanliness, refusal to take passengers, wrong use of vehicles and overloading.

 

Saksayam said this was part of his policy to make the Thai roads both legal and safe saying:"It starts with you".

 

The minister, part of the controversial Chidchob family who run the MOTO GP track in Buriram and the premier league football team there, said that kickbacks for fines have existed for some time but it had not been universally applied. 

 

Now it would be and New Year would be a great time to kick off the campaign by trying to get zero deaths on the Thai roads.

 

He urged people to report infractions on 1584 or via the DLT website. 

 

Other matters are still being discussed, he said. These include the points system for driving offences and exactly how companies using applications are to be dealt with. 

 

This seemed to be a direct reference to the ongoing discussions regarding Grab, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Sanook's headline featured a line about: "Let's earn money!". They used the word "sinbon" that can be translated as bribe, payoff, graft and kickback. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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bluesofa Ruby Member

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9 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:
13 minutes ago, webfact said:

trying to get zero deaths on the Thai roads.

No <deleted> chance whatsoever, unless you take all the vehicles off the road !

Reminds me of the old joke: Keep death off the roads - drive on the pavement.

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18 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

No <deleted> chance whatsoever, unless you take all the vehicles off the road !

Remove all the vehicles and they would still find ways to kill themselves. 

 

I can see the TV headline now. 'Highway buffalo pileup claims two lives. several injured'

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"The minister, part of the controversial Chidchob family who run the MOTO GP track in Buriram and the premier league football team there, said that kickbacks for fines have existed for some time but it had not been universally applied."

 

Of course! Until now it's been the exclusive domain of the BiB. And they won't be happy about sharing, particularly across the New Year.

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1 minute ago, Thian said:

Well they have to try something else because the police refuses to do it.

That's a very true point - 'the police refuse to do it'.

They won't do what they're apparently told to do.

 

I remember our illustrious leader was going to reform the RTP a few years ago, he bottled out. Obviously scared of them - or whoever controls his puppet strings told him not to.

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2 minutes ago, potless said:

The reward money would be better spent on establishing proper driving schools. 

While I would agree with that, the problem is even after learning to a better standard if there's no one to enforce the rules, the standard will inevitably slip.

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This juvenile rubbish just can't be made up !!

 

Thailand has one of the most awful road death tolls in the world. Yet the lengths those in positions of power will go to enable the continued apathy of the police force and absolve them of their requirement to enforce the existing laws is astonishing. 

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well they would need to have evidence of such offences otherwise they could just make stuff up to earn coin

 

 

How about getting the police to do their job - unfortunately it seems most of them don't quite know what their job is

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5 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Remove all the vehicles and they would still find ways to kill themselves. 

 

I can see the TV headline now. 'Highway buffalo pileup claims two lives. several injured'

But it wouldn't be the buffalos fault as a buffalo has some road sense. 

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Must be time for a new minister if that's the best they can do!They will need a competent government to appoint a competent minister so it must be time for a new government!So sad that this suggestion even made it out of the office let a lone to the public what an embarrassment!

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Traffic Safety is no joke.  Clearly the most reasonable, affordable and effective way to help curb reckless and incompetent motor vehicle operation would be for a concerned government to pass strictly enforced laws requiring: "All automobiles and trucks to be appointed with video recording devices; which must be operating and recording whenever the vehicles are in motion".  
 
This proactive approach would provide invaluable crucial evidence of culpability and contributing causalities for all mishaps.  Accident investigators, and others, could review pre-incident vehicle action(s) at scenes; and the tiny removable data 'cards' on these small recording devices could be evaluated off site as may be necessary to determine the truth.  
 
Promulgating such a new 'national law' would no doubt serve as a welcomed effective deterrent positively affecting rates of careless and reckless driving; as well as reducing the incidences of tragic losses.  In addition, the recorders would also be effective in recording nearby conversations in cases where criminal conduct could be detected when the vehicles are stopped; thus deterring same.
 
It would be hoped that once this is initiated additional laws could be entertained to require all 2 and 3 wheeled vehicles operated on public roadways to have like technology mounted on helmets or front end structures in plain view.
 
Only apparent morons would laugh at death, and crippling carnage sustained by the innocent; and these proposed remedies, which would probably cost an individual less than 1,000 Baht! 
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