Bangkok plans new road safety drive

The authorities in Bangkok are planning a tough safety drive in a bid to reduce the city’s high road death toll. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) promised to reduce the number of traffic offences by holding road awareness campaigns. In 2014, a total of 27,460 road crashes were reported in Bangkok, resulting in 262 deaths, 348 critical injures and 11,225 slight injuries. Thailand’s road death toll is high overall with 6,215 reported killed on its roads during 2014, along with 2,634 serious injur
July 3, 2015 Read time: 1 min
The authorities in Bangkok are planning a tough safety drive in a bid to reduce the city’s high road death toll. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) promised to reduce the number of traffic offences by holding road awareness campaigns. In 2014, a total of 27,460 road crashes were reported in Bangkok, resulting in 262 deaths, 348 critical injures and 11,225 slight injuries. Thailand’s road death toll is high overall with 6,215 reported killed on its roads during 2014, along with 2,634 serious injuries and 17,823 slight injuries. The actual toll may be higher though as in rural areas in particular, many crashes go unreported.

Related Content

  • 4th Ibero-American road safety focus planned
    July 2, 2014
    The Latin America and Caribbean Region suffers from a high number of crashes on rural roads and also in the urban areas. Road crashes are now one of the leading causes of death in the region, especially for those aged 5-44. There are around 100,000 reported road fatalities/year in Latin America and the Caribbean while over 5 million/year are injured. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that the death and serious injury rates are 10-20 times higher than in other industrialised regions, highli
    Read More
  • The cost of crashes in the US
    May 25, 2023
    The financial cost of road crashes in the US places a heavy burden
    Read More
  • Risk warnings for UK revealed with new data
    May 9, 2013
    New data from the UK reveals key information about road risk factors both across the country and in capital London. A new report reveals that around 68% of pedestrian casualties are adults who are at greatest risk on weekend evenings and after consuming alcohol. Meanwhile another separate study in London reveals that cyclists are not at fault in most crashes in which they are involved.
    Read More
  • UK road safety sees good and bad
    February 5, 2016
    There is both good and bad to be seen in the latest data on UK road safety from the Department for Transport (DfT). For the year ending September 2015 there were 23,700 killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties, a 3% decrease compared with the previous year. However road deaths increased by 3% to 1,780, compared with 1,731 for the year ending September 2014. There were also 188,830 reported road casualties of all severities, 3% lower than for the year ending September 2014. Of note is the fact that motor
    Read More

Highlighted Content