Summary
- Thailand has the second-deadliest roads in Asia, with around 20,000 people killed every year.
- Factors contributing to this include speeding, drink driving, poor road design, and unsafe vehicles.
- Efforts to improve road safety include the National Master Plan on Road Safety and campaigns to encourage helmet-wearing and catch drink drivers.
- Thailand’s road mortality rate has decreased from 39 per 100,000 people in 2000.