Thailand, one of the ASEAN countries is located in the main land of Asia. The population is 63.07 million inhabitants with the number of cars 26.076 million, this figure has increased rapidly from 12.579 million in the year 1994p to 26.07 in the year 2003. According to government policy and the location, Thailand makes a target of being land transport and aviation hub in Southeast Asia and South China region. That will enable land transport in Thailand grow rapidly. Road safety is one of the major issues for Thailand. We lost more than 100,000 million baht in the year 2002, with the number of fatalities 13,116, serious injuries 190,322 and minor injures 1,338,712. The cost of road accident is nearly 2.1 per of total gross domestic product (GDP) for Thailand. With this record, Thailand's road fatalities are the highest among the other 9 ASEAN countries. From our study, there are three major causes of problem, which are people, vehicle, road and road environment. It was found five major causes which make road serious accident on road in Thailand, are motorcycle crash, drunk driving, speeding, the new year and Songkran festivals and also road safety culture initiation (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.
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