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According to official statistics, 14,059 people were killed on Thai roads and highways in 2012, translating to a road-death rate of 36.2 people per 100,000, a rate onlysurpassed by war-torn Libya, where 73.4 people per 100,000 died that same year,according to the WHO’s 2015 Global Status Report on Road Safety
The only countries near Thailand’s huge traffic-death rate were Iran (32.1 per 100,000), Togo (31.1) and nine African countries that posted rates between 30 and 35.
However, road fatalities in Thailand were far higher than officially reported, the WHO concluded.
The WHO estimates 24,237 were actually killed in 2012 based on its models, 42% more than stated by Thailand’s Public Health Ministry.
LACK OF STANDARDS
The lack of standards is particularly noticeable in Thailand:
1. There is no child restraint law (e.g. safety seat or seat belt for children).
2. There are no safety audits for new road construction projects.
3. There are no regular inspections of road infrastructure.
4. Thailand has no policies to separate motorists from pedestrians and cyclists (e.g. to keep motorcycles off sidewalks used by pedestrians).
5. Thailand’s national seat-belt law does not apply to all passengers in a car.
TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT
Traffic law enforcement in Thailand also got poor marks.
Traffic police were rated three on a scale of 10 for their enforcement of speed limits.
Police earned sixes for enforcement of drink-driving and motorcycle-helmet laws.
Yet the status report said only 52% of motorbike drivers — who accounted for 70% of all road and highway fatalities – actually wear a helmet.
Only 20% of the people riding on the back of motorcycles (pillion passengers) worehelmets.
That mark, however, was a significant increase from the 3% wearing helmets recorded in 2007.
As for drink-driving, 26% of all road deaths can be attributed to alcohol, the WHO said.
MOTORCYCLISTS, PEDESTRIANS HALF OF ALL DEATHS
Worldwide, nearly half of all those killed in traffic accidents are either walking or on two wheels, the new report showed, with pedestrians accounting for 22% of all deaths, motorcyclists making up 23%, and cyclists 4%.
The WHO report found that road safety had improved significantly in countries with laws regulating five risk factors: speed, drunk driving, and the use of helmets, seatbelts and child seats.
The WHO recommends that the maximum speed in urban areas should be set no higher than 50 kilometres per hour. Thailand’s maximum urban speed limit, bycomparison, is 80km/h. Its rural and highway limits are even higher at 90km/h and 120km/h, respectively, although local authorities can set lower limits.
You need to know how to drive correctly carefully in Thailand.
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