Thailand becomes the second-highest road-fatality rate in the world: Survey

Posted on 21 October 2015. Tags: Becomes, rate, roadfatality, secondhighest, Survey, Thailand, World

Thailand become the second-highest road-fatality rate in the world, according to a new World Health Organization survey.

In its 2015 Global Status Report on Road Safety, the UN health agency said 14,059 were killed on Thai roads and highways in 2012, translating to a road-death rate of 36.2 people per 100,000, a rate only surpassed by war-torn Libya, where 73.4 people per 100,000 died that same year.

Thailand’s traffic-death rate was only even approached by Iran (32.1 per 100,000), Togo (31.1) and nine African countries that posted rates between 30 and 35.

Contributed By Sonia Narula

News of Delhi