This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Thailand by year. As of 2012[update] 54% of motor vehicles in Thailand were two or three-wheeled vehicles. These vehicles were involved in 73% of fatalities.[1] A fatality is defined as a death within 30 days of a crash. There were 212,060 km of roads in 2006: 61,747 km of highways, 313 km of motorways, 42,500 km of rural roads, and 107,500 km of local roads under local administration.[2]
| Year | Deaths | Crashes | Registered vehicles |
Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 13,836 | 82,336 | 17,666,240 | [2] |
| 1998 |  12,234 |
73,725 |
18,860,512 | [2] |
| 1999 | 12,040 |
67,800 |
20,096,536 | [2] |
| 2000 | 11,988 |
 73,737 |
20,835,684 | [2] |
| 2001 | 11,652 |
77,616 |
22,589,185 | [2] |
| 2002 | 13,116 |
91,623 |
24,517,250 | [2] |
| 2003 | 14,446 |
104,642 |
26,378,862 | [2] |
| 2004 | 13,766 |
124,530 |
20,624,719* | [2] |
| 2005 | 12,858 |
122,040 |
22,571,062* | [2] |
| 2006 | 12,069 |
111,035 |
24,807,297* | [2] |
| 2007 | 12,492 | 101,752 | [3] | |
| 2008 | 11,561 | 88,721 | [3] | |
| 2009 | 10,717 | 84,806 | [3] | |
| 2010 | 10,742 | 74,379 | [3] | |
| 2011 | 9,910 | 68,269 | [3] | |
| 2012 | 14,059 (reported) 24,237 (WHO est) |
61,197 | 32,476,977 | [3][1] |
Data for 2012
