It is a shame that road safety is only in the public mind for these seven days either side on the Songkran holiday. It would be nice if they regularly released statistics about road accidents in Thailand. More needs to be done to make road travel safer, both for individual drivers and passengers of tour buses. I've mentioned before that a lot of these accidents are caused by inexperienced and unlicensed drivers out on the road. The practical exam for the driving test needs to be done on the road and not in the parking lot. The other problem is that many of the road rules are not enforced. They do have crackdowns every now and then, but these are mainly for the top brass to get their picture in the newspapers.