Government Status Report of Republic of Korea

The efforts led by the Government of the Republic of Korea to reduce the fatalities and road traffic accidents played a major role in decreasing the fatality rate in road traffic accidents. In the past 5 years (2012-2016) the fatalities from road traffic accidents continued to decrease due to the implementation of the 7th transportation safety master plan. Table 1 and Figure 1 show that the number of fatalities from road traffic accidents was decreased by 17.9 % from 5,229 deaths in 2011 to 4,294 deaths in 2016. Even though the fatality rate was decreased below 10 deaths in 100,000 populations since 2014, the rate is still twice as high as those of countries with good road traffic safety records. The number of vehicle registered has increased from 18.44 million in 2011 to 20.99 million with an annual rate 3.3 %. On the other hand the fatalities have decreased with an annual rate of 3.9 %.