Driving points system: Drivers banned after reaching 100 points - report

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Driving points system: Drivers banned after reaching 100 points - report

 

Picture: MThai

 

Proposals put forward by transport minister Saksayam Chidchob to DLT officials and the police say that Thai drivers will only be banned when they have accumulated 100 points on their licences, claimed a section of the Thai media. 

 

According to points already proposed this would mean having to be caught drink driving a staggering 25 times before you would be off the road for a year. 

 

Alternatively you could go through 50 red lights or go the wrong way down a road 50 times before being banned. 

 

You would have to flee the scene of an accident 34 times before losing your licence. 

 

Or drivers could look at their phone 100 times or motorcyclists could ride on the sidewalk or not wear a helmet 100 times before they were obliged to put the keys away for a year.

 

MThai.com said this was all part of encouraging Thais to be better drivers. Saksayam is making the proposals to the Department of Land Transport and the Thai Police, they claimed. 

 

The media also said that when 100 points is reached a driver could take the test again and get a new licence. But if they amassed 100 more points that would be it - a lifetime ban from driving. 

 

German and Swiss testing procedures are also being studied to upgrade the Thai driving test, they reported. 

 

MThai.com said that the following points system applied:

 

One point: Using a mobile phone while driving, not wearing a seatbelt or helmet, riding on the sidewalk

 

Two points: Going through red lights or going the wrong way

 

Three points: Organizing street racing, fleeing the scene of an accident or driving under the influence of drugs

 

Four points: DUI and driving while intoxicated with 200mg of alcohol in the blood and causing injury or death

 

Thaivisa cautions that this report - and its interpretation by us here - makes a stark contrast with previous proposals to ban drivers after they amass just 12 points. 

 

The claim about getting 4 points for 200 mg of alcohol seems odd, we further note, as the limit for DUI in Thailand is just 50 for experienced drivers. 

 

Source: MThai

 

 

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[George Bowman]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

the police say that Thai drivers will only be banned when they have accumulated 100 points on their licences

How do you clean coffee out of a keyboard?

 

[CelticBhoy]

Might as well do as you want on the roads then  . . . .  ????

[Assurancetourix]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thai drivers will only be banned when they have accumulated 100 points on their licences

Very big anything;
some would sometimes cut their tongues before coming out of such bulls.hit.

 

In France there are 12 points on a driving license and this for many years;
1 * July `1992, it does not date from yesterday ...
and it is very easy to lose these 12 points
(and also very easy to keep them, I never lost a single one when I was an international trucker, like what, when you want, you can).
The link leads you to a page in French, but I think that a minimum of intelligence will allow you to understand that losing 12 points for a Thai driver is disconcertingly easy ...

But we are in Thailand ,and to lose your license you have to go up to 100 points; why not 1,000 or even 10,000? 

 

https://www.permis-apoints.com/infraction-entrainant-perte-points.html

 

and never forget that around 40% of Thai drivers do not have a driving license; so lose points, they don't care. 

[Dmaxdan]

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

According to points already proposed this would mean having to be caught drink driving a staggering 25 times before you would be off the road for a year. 

 

Alternatively you could go through 50 red lights or go the wrong way down a road 50 times before being banned. 

 

You would have to flee the scene of an accident 34 times before losing your licence. 

So about a weeks worth of driving then...

[Gulfsailor]

Do you start at 0 at the beginning of each year? They shouldn’t make it too strict. ????

[otherstuff1957]

I've seen drivers here that could accumulate 100 points in less than a month!

[Don Mega]

About time... those 100 point need to be slimmed down to 10 though, not including drink/drug, using mobile phone whilst driving, those 3 should be instant on the spot 5 year ban from operating a motor vehicle.

[evadgib]

37 minutes ago, webfact said:

According to points already proposed this would mean having to be caught drink driving a staggering 25 times before you would be off the road for a year. 

Songkran and Easter!

[Assurancetourix]

They don't care about lost points or even a driver's license.
the only thing that interests them is money;
so reach them where it hurts:
seize their vehicles and destroy them, if possible before their eyes;
but it will not offset the debt they owe to the bank that they have to repay each month and especially to their victims ...

[phetphet]

6 minutes ago, otherstuff1957 said:

I've seen drivers here that could accumulate 100 points in less than a month!

Yes. But what are the chances of them getting caught in the first place?

[RJRS1301]

Australia has 12 demerit point system, for holiday periods and other holiday public days it is often double demerit points and can all be lost for a couple offences 

[ChouDoufu]

how many points for driving without (ever having) a license?

how many points for driving while banned?

[Don Mega]

15 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Australia has 12 demerit point system, for holiday periods and other holiday public days it is often double demerit points and can all be lost for a couple offences 

And ?

[Chazar]

How  many for mowing someone down and then reversing  back over them?

[Chazar]

9 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

And ?

Points  make  prizes....didnt you  know

[Chazar]

1 hour ago, missoura said:

How do you clean coffee out of a keyboard?

 

with this, several passes  will  be needed

[worgeordie]

It just goes to show the Government are not serious at all in

trying to improve driving for Thai people,and most importantly

reducing the deaths and carnage on the roads. its a joke

regards Worgeordie

[faraday]

5 minutes ago, Chazar said:

How  many for mowing someone down and then reversing  back over them?

500 baht & a free amulet, but you gotta be pished up when you do it.

 

 

[Sticky Wicket]

15 minutes ago, Chazar said:

How  many for mowing someone down and then reversing  back over them?

You get bonus points for that, they come off any existing points that you have accumulated. 

Everyone's a winner

Death Race 2020!

[KhaoYai]

????? I was under the impression that the new points system had already been agreed and that it started in December with 12 points of credit given?

[sammieuk1]

From my 10 year stretch here I would say they should all be on 99.9 points before getting out of bed????

[DLock]

20 minutes ago, Chazar said:

How  many for mowing someone down and then reversing  back over them?

If the reversing happened on a 2-way street = 2 points

 

If it was on a one-way street = 3 points.

[dcnx]

Once again it comes back to enforcement. Who will enforce this? Certainly not the police. 
 

Many people drive without a license anyway because there are zero consequences.

[scubascuba3]

It's a start i guess, in a lawless country maybe that's the best way to kick it off

[mickymouse1]

I think I can achieve that 100 in 1 day if I drive the Thai way!!!????????

[Geoffggi]

As has been said many times, there is NO deterrent for driving badly in this country so why are the government wasting everyone's time with these stupid posts

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, Chazar said:

How  many for mowing someone down and then reversing  back over them?

 

Urban legend ;
I remember hearing this bullsh.it about fifteen years ago when I started coming to Thailand;
If a Thai rolls on someone it will be very quickly anyway and if he realizes it , will perhaps stop, which is very far from being sure, and will leave as quickly.
not seen, not taken ..

except that there are cameras almost everywhere and especially informers even more everywhere, since it is the national sport of this country : delation 

[Andrew65]

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Australia has 12 demerit point system, for holiday periods and other holiday public days it is often double demerit points and can all be lost for a couple offences 

They can also allow you to drive to work whilst banned a "work licence", in many countries if you're gonna lose you job because you lost your licence they don't care.

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

how many points for driving without (ever having) a license?

how many points for driving while banned?

You mean normal road users, that's a tricky one.