How can Thailand curb its appalling road fatality rate?

[Big Boy]

The trouble is, peoples livelihoods are at stake, and before this, or any similar investigation comes to any sensible conclusion, brown envelopes will be served, and the incident will be forgotten until the next time.

[Dannie Boy]

Although the design of the double decker buses is inherently flawed, the biggest problem are the drivers who want to exceed the buses safety limits, which results in the regular fatalities that we read about.

As BB has said, it’s news today but after time and a few brown envelopes, it’ll almost certainly be business as usual.


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[Hahuahin]

I prefer to call a spade a spade and we can blame everything from bad brakes to crazy drivers but when it comes down to it, road safety depends on the government's efforts to improve it and stop the madness on the roads. And as long as the government don't value ​​its people and"voters" more than they do here, then that speaks for itself.
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[buksida]

New road safety shock
A new report on deaths among footpath users is shocking and unacceptable.

On Monday, the Department of Disease Control released its safety report, saying 5,066 pedestrians were killed in accidents from 2015 to 2024, or 506 deaths annually.

The report says 58,705 pedestrians, or 5,870 footpath users, were admitted to hospitals. Major causes of death and injuries vary, led by reckless drivers, substandard footpaths, and obstacles posed by street furniture.

Some pedestrians also fail to use zebra crossings or are absorbed in their mobile phones instead of focusing on the road.

What is more worrying is the fatality rate is increasing. In 2020, the percentage of pedestrian deaths compared to total accidents that occurred in footpath areas was 0.57% and dropped to 0.56% in 2021-22.

In 2023, a year after the death of Dr Waraluck "Kratai" Supawatjariyakul, a young optician killed while walking on a pedestrian crossing in front of the Bhumiraj Nagarindra Kidney Institute on Phaya Thai Road, the percentage rose to 0.62% and 0.63% last year.

That figure suggests more law violations and inefficient guardrails to protect users.

It also means the public uproar that accompanied that tragedy and led to a new safety campaign in 2022 appears to have counted for little.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opi ... fety-shock