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.

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