Just two weeks after the tragic accident in which Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul, an ophthalmologist with the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, was killed by a high-powered motorcycle as she walked across Phayathai Road at a zebra crossing, another death on a pedestrian crossing was reported in Bangkok.
This time the victim was an elderly man, who was hit by a pickup truck while he traversed a zebra crossing in Bang Bon district on Wednesday evening.
Traffic and road safety experts say the tragedies at pedestrian crossings should serve as a wake-up call to state agencies that it is past time to reform the transport system and make the roads safer.
Bangkok’s dangerous roads
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