Songkran is a one day event - or should be. In Pattaya this is stretched to around 10 days. The police have designated a period of 7 most dangerous days on the road when the majority of the carnage occurs.
Police checkpoints are being set up daily and mainly nightly when the drunken idiots head off home after an evening of fun, frolics and alcoholic fizzy drinks.
Nearing the end of the week but they don't seem to have got the message or have got it but don't care one iota. A traffic checkpoint between 3 am and 6 am at the traffic lights of Pattaya Third Road and South Pattaya Road netted 40 over the limit inebriated idiots mainly motorcyclists.
With heavy fines and a free bed in the police cells whilst these sozzled citizens sober up they will all learn a valuable lesson and never drink and drive again. Well not until the next time of course.
