This is the heart-stopping moment a pedestrian had a near-miss accident after a bus ignored a red light at a zebra crossing in Thailand.

The woman waited for the traffic light to turn green before walking over the pedestrian crossing on Dinso Road in front of Bangkok City Hall on April 24.

As she began to stride to the other side of the road, a purple bus forced its way through the intersection despite the red light.

The shocked local backtracked to let the bus pass, but later lodged complaints with the police, the Department of Land Transport, and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority.

The woman, who was not named, said the bus company involved has apologised to her, with the erring driver reprimanded.

She said: 'I was sure I had checked the traffic lights before crossing. Hopefully this incident raises awarenesss about road safety issues.'

Thailand has one of the world's worst road safety records. Ministers have set the goal of reducing fatalities from 32.7 deaths per 100,000 people to 12 per 100,000 people by the year 2027.

However, a lack of road safety education in schools, cheap loans for cars, notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws as well as endemic corruption and chronic under-investment in infrastructure hamper the efforts.