{"id":27963,"date":"2019-01-04T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27963"},"modified":"2019-01-04T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:22:37","slug":"more-than-460-people-die-during-seven-dangerous-days-on-thailands-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27963","title":{"rendered":"More than 460 people die during &#8216;seven dangerous days&#8217; on Thailand&#8217;s roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)<\/cite>Driving in Thailand can be a hair-raising experience at the best of times, but during the country&#8217;s so-called &#8220;seven dangerous days&#8221; over the New Year holiday motorists take their lives in their hands.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Authorities say the one-week festive period is marred by an increase in crashes, deaths and injuries as Thais travel to visit friends and family. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Efforts to crack down on the causes of those crashes &#8212; drunk driving, corrupt cops and general weak enforcement of traffic laws &#8212; have so far proved ineffective. Between December 27 and January 2, a total of 463 people died in 3,791 traffic accidents, pretty much on par with last year&#8217;s 423 deaths, according to the country&#8217;s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Driving in Thailand can be a hair-raising experience at the best of times, but during the country&#8217;s so-called &#8220;seven dangerous days&#8221; over the New Year holiday motorists take their lives in their hands.Authorities say the one-week festive period is marred by an increase in crashes, deaths and injuries as Thais travel to visit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}