![Motorcyclists stopped at a police checkpoint on Thepprasit Road at the Kheha Weekend Market and fined for traffic offenses, complained that due to COVID-19, they had no money to pay the fines.](https://www.pattayamail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1376-N1-Mar-21-03-Police-ticket-law-1.jpg)
According to Pattaya’s bad drivers, because of the coronavirus they should no longer be ticketed for risking their lives and others.
Rather than wear helmets, gets a license, drive on the correct side of the road and not speed, motorcyclists stopped at a police checkpoint on Thepprasit Road at the Kheha Weekend Market March 21 blamed the police for enforcing traffic laws and writing them tickets.
The bad-driver logic goes like this: Yes, we know we’re breaking the law, but we don’t have any money now because of business closures and tourist departures due to the coronavirus. So we should be given a pass.
More than 3,200 people were killed on Thailand’s roads already this year, the overwhelmingly majority on motorbikes. Meanwhile, only one Thai has died from Covid-19.
![This law-breaking biker seems amused as a policeman prepares to give him a traffic violation ticket.](https://www.pattayamail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1376-N1-Mar-21-03-Police-ticket-law-2.jpg)
![Police on the lookout for traffic offenders on Thepprasit Road.](https://www.pattayamail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1376-N1-Mar-21-03-Police-ticket-law-3.jpg)
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