44 fatalities reported on Friday but four-day total down from last year
Forty-four people were killed and another 368 injured in road accidents across the country on Friday, the fourth of the “seven dangerous days”, raising the Songkran death toll to 158.
The number of deaths in the first four days of the holiday is down by 14 from 172 in the same four-day period last year.
According to data from the road safety centre at the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, 1,433 people were injured in 1,422 road accidents from April 11-14. That compared…