A report by Bloomberg on 20 June cited statistics from World Health Organisation (WHO) for 2013, stating that Malaysia is among the emerging countries with the riskiest roads after Thailand and South Africa.



Thailand made it to the top of the list with a death rate of 36.2 per 100,000 population. The other two countries in the Southeast Asia region into the top 20 list, namely Indonesia and the Philippines, registered a 15 and 11 death rate respectively.



"Road users in low- and middle-income countries are more than twice as likely to die in a traffic accident than their counterparts in developed nations," read the report.