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Staggering statistics from an Ubon Ratchathani accident site online said that 94 people had been reported dead in 24 hours from midnight to midnight on Monday.
Thaivisa notes that some of these may have been late reports from the long weekend but it is still an abnormally high figure even for a Monday.
The site said that 3,311 were reported injured in the same period.
Of the 94 dead 78 were motorcyclists and 16 were in cars.
There were 89 Thais killed and 5 foreigners.
Ninety one were adults and three were children under 15.
This brought the year's total to 14,492 dead on Thai roads and 952,271 injured.
With 17 days to go including the notoriously dangerous New Year period the number of injured could top a million, notes Thaivisa and the dead "at the scene" could easily surpass that from last year based on figures earlier published by Daily News.
This in a year when the lockdown made the Thai roads particularly quiet for a long period.
Many have called Thailand's road accident statistics a national disgrace that has never been properly addressed.
Senior government officials have admitted that the death toll, when those who die in and on the way to hospitals is added, is at least 20,000 a year.
Accident prevention groups say the figure is higher still at about 25,000 per year.
Source: Facebook Ubon Ratchathani
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