South Korea’s shocking road safety situation

South Korea suffers from an appalling rate of road crashes, acccording to a new report published by the Korea Transport Institute. The report investigated crash data from the 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. This revealed that South Korea has the highest road fatality rate of those 29 nations. In 2010, South Korea saw an average number of road deaths hit 11.3/100,000 individuals. Drilling down further into the data revealed that in 2011, pedestrians in North Gyeongsang Province were the most vulnerable citizens of the country’s 16 provinces and metropolitan cities in the country in 2011. These suffered some 22.2 road deaths/100,000 individuals. On a more positive note, South Korea’s road fatality rate declined to 10.3/100,000 people in 2011 compared with a shocking 21.4/100,000 in 2000. Iceland has the lowest fatality rate with 2.5 deaths/100,000 while the US recorded 10.6 deaths/100,000 while Greece had a fatality rate of 11.1/100,000 people.