The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government have signed a US$99.4-million loan to help the country upgrade 125km of highway and improve road safety management in the northeast.
So-called “tombstone regulation” concerns body counts. A body count (or a potential body count) is the factor that tends to sway people into doing something or saying something about a particular issue, such as road accidents or dangerous and illegally built hotels.
Slaps on the wrist reveal why Thai roads are so deadly
THURSDAY, JUNE 02, 2016
A key reason that Thailand has the world’s second-highest road-fatality rate is because drivers and vehicle owners are not held accountable for their misdeeds. Thus, for example, when a five-year-old student fell from a school bus in Tak a few days ago, t