In the final World Health Organisation report into road deaths in Southeast Asia and Asia, it in all probability won’t come as a surprise to be taught that Thailand came prime. According to the 2018 report, the kingdom had a median of 32.7 deaths per one hundred,000 individuals. This compares to 26.4 in Vietnam and 23.6 in Malaysia, followed by Myanmar (19.9), Cambodia (17.8), Laos (16.6), Timor-Leste (12.7), the Philippines (12.3), Indonesia (12.2) and Singapore (2.8).
In a list of the top 10 countries with the best number of highway deaths globally, Thailand got here in at quantity 9. Cheap have been largely African countries, based on a Nation Thailand report. A 2019 report by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation’s street safety centre recognized pedestrians as essentially the most susceptible class on Thai roads. This got here to the fore last week when a girl was killed in Bangkok after being struck by a policeman on an enormous bike as she used a zebra crossing.
According to Nation Thailand, statistics from the Department of Highways for the interval 2013 – 2017 present that on common, 55 out of a hundred accidents involved pedestrians being hit by drivers coming from the opposite direction. The report also found that forty out of a hundred accidents were attributable to dangerous overtaking.
Meanwhile, the Digital Government Development Agency says Thailand reported around 20,000 highway deaths in the period from 2014 to 2017. Of these, 740 had been pedestrians.
“Most of those killed have been youngsters aged 15 to 19, followed by folks aged 50 to sixty nine. Most of the accidents were caused by bikes, followed by vehicles and trucks.”