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Thai New Year Awash in Groping and Road Deaths

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Apr 13, 2016
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On the first day of Songkran this year, Thailand’s three-day lunar new year celebration and festival, 52 people died in car crashes and another 421 were hurt in nearly 400 road accidents as a combination of speeding and drunk driving took its toll.

Even without Songkran, Thailand has the world’s second-highest death toll per million miles traveled. Road …

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