A woman was crushed to death between two buses in Dhaka’s Gulistan area today.
Nine people were killed and at least 50 were injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Rangpur early today (September 5, 2022).
At least 1,674 children (between one month and 18-year-old) died in road accidents across the country between January 2020 and April 2022, according to Road Safety Foundation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon all including the drivers and pedestrians to be responsible in using the roads to avoid accidents while opening a number of development projects.
A member of Rapid Action Battalion is killed while another injured as a truck hit their motorcycle at Kakrail intersection in Dhaka.
Police arrest the driver of a bus in connection with a road accident which claimed the life of a pedestrian near Mohakhali flyover in Dhaka around a month back.
The owner and driver of a bus are killed after being hit by another bus in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
At least five people including three university students are killed and seven others are injured in two separate accidents in Narsingdi and Narayanganj.
At least 20 people were killed and 82 others injured in separate road accidents in eight districts yesterday. Of the 20 dead, seven were killed in Feni, four in Faridpur, three in Kishoreganj, two in Sirajganj, and one each in Gopalganj, Mymensingh, Barishal and Tangail.
The helper was driving the reckless bus that hit the car of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area last night amid the ongoing Traffic Week.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says road accident is the number one cause of deaths in Bangladesh rather than cancer or kidney diseases.
Drivers, mostly overworked and underpaid, are often blamed for Bangladesh's high traffic casualty rate - road accidents kill or injure at least five people an hour in the country - and the resentment against them has been aggravated by the deaths of the two students last Friday.
The car of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is hit by a reckless bus in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area amid the ongoing Traffic Week.
Five people, including two minor girls, were killed and 45 others injured in road accidents in Gaibandha, Khagrachhari, Savar and Munshiganj yesterday.
Two brothers were killed in a road crash and another injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run autorickshaw in Hetimganj area of Golapganj upazila in Sylhet yesterday morning.
In order to prevent road accidents in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gives several directives to concerned authorities which include a restriction on drivers plying their vehicles on the highways five hours at a stretch.
Come road tragedies, come rhetorical reactions. Probe committees are formed, recommendations made and all left to be forgotten till the next major crashes.
A one-year-old boy is killed as a truck hit his mother while crossing a road with the child at Signboard area of Dhaka’s Jatrabari.
Four people are killed in a head-on collision between two trucks on Bangabandhu Bridge link road in Kalihati upazila of Tangail today.
