The 2030 agenda of sustainable development targets to improve road safety by creating transportation infrastructures that are more safe, accessible, and affordable for all societies. Indonesia is one of the countries committed to adapt the agenda of road safety management in its National Road Safety Master Plan. The master plan aims to minimize fatality rate by integrating the principles of sustainability, coordination, and togetherness. This research develops a framework for road safety management that effectively reduces traffic accidents. The methods used by case study, quantitative assessment and framework analysis. It reviews the general characteristics of Indonesia’s roads and their relation to traffic accidents. Furthermore, the research identifies the causes of road accidents, determines their rates, and proposes a framework of road safety management. The results show that there was a significant relationship between traffic accidents, type of injuries, number of vehicles on the road, and the extent of road damages, from 2016 to 2018. Moreover, there was a relationship between the highest traffic accident rates and the severity index in 2017. In Indonesia, traffic accidents are mainly caused by factors related to humans, vehicles, equipment, and road environment. Law and regulations are the umbrellas that integrate, monitor and supervise human approaches to vehicles and the road environment.
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