This research aims to develop a road accident prevention system to reduce the risk of accident a case study of Kamsakasang Junction Non-Thai District Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The target audiences are: traffic experts and 15 civil engineers to evaluated the developed system. From the study of traffic problem and risk areas there are 7 aspects to be improved: 1) Installation of traffic light 2) Installation of lighting and changing control cabinet 3) Improvement of the traffic island 4) Changing lower traffic island to higher one 5) Painting reflecting colour and reflecting light on the edge of the island 6) Drawing traffic line 7) Installation of warning signs. From the development of accident prevention system and evaluated by the experts; the overall evaluation of the system was the best (x = 4.66 SD = 0.41). There were 6 highest rated aspects and 1 very good aspect. The highest rated were installation of Vehicle Actuated traffic light (x = 4.92 SD = 0.15). As result of the development of road accident prevention system in 2014 the accident statistics were reduced by 53.85% compared to the pre-installation period. The statistics are reduced so it can be concluded that the road accident prevention system can be used effectively and it can be applied to other risk areas.

Nowadays car is one of important factors for the human life whereas critical traffic dramatically effects on risk of accident between cars and pedestrians. Therefore the road accident is the enormous loss of human resources. Regarding this problems the lifted mechanism of vehicle hood was concerned and installed on the vehicle hood simulator to mitigate the severe accident in this project. To achieve this the energy absorption was established to decrease the injury of pedestrians by the gap increase between the bottom edge of hood and the engine valve cover. This solution can increase the ability of energy absorption during an accident moment. There were 8 steps of hood gap in this study to in the experimental works indicated by Head Injury Criterion HIC from head-form. The testing program was referred by Pedestrian Protection Test Procedures in EURO NCAP. From the experimental works the increasing gap between the bottom edge of hood and the engine valve cover tends to decrease the values of HIC. By the lowest of HIC the 4th gap is 18 cm of space representing 90.17 and 208.06 of HIC15 and HIC35 respectively. In consequence of experiment the gap between the bottom edge of hood and the engine valve cover plays a role on the HIC value in which it can mitigate the severe injury of pedestrian on accidental way whereas the lifted up mechanism of hood are ability as conjecture.

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