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

[HHTel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

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

How do you 'accumulate' 100 points on a system that starts off with 12 points which are deducted by x points after an offence?

 

And this from only a few months ago:

 

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Licences will be suspended for up to 180 days if more than six points are deducted in any three-year period.

Drink-driving carries a potential 35-point penalty, a maximum jail term of five years and/or a fine of up to 300,000 baht, as well as a five-year driving licence suspension.

As usual, words mean nothing when it comes to the law.

[Deli]

Skip this point rubbish and go back to normal. Holy cow, why taking on all the BS from the West ?

[holy cow cm]

there needs to be some point to where the points are cleared off your record.

[hobobo]

4 hours ago, missoura said:

How do you clean coffee out of a keyboard?

 

Too late, that's 100 points!

[kekalot]

this system should be linked to their Thai (or otherwise) ID, so regardless of if they have a license or not (or try to hide it) it would bite them in the ass anyways

the police should have the power to seize a vehicle and sell them at auctions if necessary (or destroy it if it was some worthless vehicle)

 

no helmet with motorbike 3-4 times?

seize the vehicle and force them to pay a fine that climbs up every time they are caught. 1000-2000-3000-4000-5000 baht?

can't pay the fine? auction the vehicle real cheap and give them the change (lol)

 

 

[Redline]

Juvenile society-no real penalties-everyone gets metals-everyone passes-no accountably for anyone.  People drive anyway because nobody will stop them, and thirty percent of drivers don’t have licenses anyway 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

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

They do... and will continue to do so.

I've said more times than there are accidents Thais will not change their road habits & the officials will not stop them from going about their daily business!

This is just the confirmation of how it is and how it's going to remain... the same!!!!

[Benmart]

Corruption dilutes any initiative for dragging this country out of its pathetic roadway deaths record.

[HHTel]

1 hour ago, kekalot said:

the police should have the power to seize a vehicle and sell them at auctions if necessary (or destroy it if it was some worthless vehicle

The driver/offender may not be the owner of the vehicle.

[Don Mega]

Quick run down to BKK this arvo, reckon I easily did 50 points !!

 

Driving on a side walk with not seat belt on whilst using a mobile phone.... Is that 1 point for each or 1 point in total ?

[Satcommlee]

How many points for not having a licence?

[Misterwhisper]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

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

And no points for driving without a license?

 

How about wrong parking, not using indicators, driving without lights, steering a motor vehicle under the legal age, not stopping at zebra crossings, exceeding the speed limit, overloading transport vehicles, transporting goods unsecured or in a dangerous manner, disregarding traffic signs, crossing a railway line while the barriers are down, making u-turns where prohibited, driving a motor vehicle on pedestrian walkways, overtaking on the hard shoulder or before gradients, not building a lane for approaching emergency vehicles,  etc. etc.?

 

A lot seems to be missing in this "catalogue".

 

Yes, go "study" the point systems of Germany and Switzerland (at tax payer cost, of course). You certainly have a lot to learn. For instance, in Germany it's enough to accumulate 8 (EIGHT!!!) points in a calendar year to lose the driving license for at least six months. Under such harsh conditions the average Thai motorist would have to hand in their license within 24 hours maximum. 

[asiaexpat]

6 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

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

how many points for driving while banned?

No problem because there is no traffic enforcement anyway. One must be issued a ticket before points are issued and if one does not even have a license then it can not be revoked.

[androokery]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

They do... and will continue to do so.

I've said more times than there are accidents Thais will not change their road habits & the officials will not stop them from going about their daily business!

This is just the confirmation of how it is and how it's going to remain... the same!!!!

I refuse to believe this - I mean, I think it's very likely that you're right and the lawlessness on the roads has gone too far to ever be rectified, but based on the adherence to rules and regulations I witness in the BTS and the Metro in BKK I still want to maintain some hope that the Thai people can change their ways. The queuing is very disciplined and I never see anyone eating where they're not supposed to. 

[Scott Tracy]

Ah bless them. They do try, though.....

[Toadie]

10 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 

.175 pretty well does it

[Tops]

Farangs: NO DISCOUNT, get 5 points free at every checkpoint.

Thai: 50% DISCOUNT when offense has occured and is registered.

Edited January 22, 2020 by Tops

[Sonhia]

It wont work or be enforced. Too much corruption and lawlessness. 

 

Yet more Thia idiotic thinking.

 

[Soikhaonoiken]

What a laugh, nothing surprises me any more, so nothing will change. 

[impulse]

7 hours ago, androokery said:

I refuse to believe this - I mean, I think it's very likely that you're right and the lawlessness on the roads has gone too far to ever be rectified, but based on the adherence to rules and regulations I witness in the BTS and the Metro in BKK I still want to maintain some hope that the Thai people can change their ways. The queuing is very disciplined and I never see anyone eating where they're not supposed to. 

 

I've seen the drivers in China improve in leaps and bounds- all down to cameras and enforcement in the last 10 years.  In fact, when I moved to Thailand in 2011, Thai drivers were better.  But Chinese drivers improved to the point they're much safer today.  Thai drivers, no improvement.

 

[Cricky]

21 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

In France there are 12 points on a driving license and this for many years;

Most of the normal world has similar

[KenKadz]

Another HALF-NICE idea, not thought through to completion!

[Artisi]

On 1/22/2020 at 11:50 AM, evadgib said:

Songkran and Easter!

Easter, is there any evidence that the very small number of Christian Thai's drink and drive, guess there is every chance of it happening during the long holiday break given for Easter ????????????