Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
Time to put people’s safety at the heart of policymaking
Over 80 percent of the 7,713 road crash victims last year were aged between 18 and 65 years, the most productive segment of the population, Road Safety Foundation said yesterday.
New RTA rules can improve safety if properly enforced
A sharp and unregulated growth of vehicles, especially motorcycles and three-wheelers, over the last few years has resulted in a spike in the numbers of road crashes and casualties.
The family of a person killed in a road crash due to reckless or negligent driving will get at least Tk 5 lakh in compensation.
A seven-year-old boy was killed after a train ran over him in Dhaka’s Moghbazar Wireless area this afternoon (August 8, 2022).
Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a covered van in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early today.
Two persons died in separate accidents in Dhaka’s Bhatara and Tikatuli areas early today.
Another person, who suffered injuries in a road accident as a bus rammed a truck in Betgram area on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila of Gopalganj on Friday night, dies on Saturday morning, raising the death toll from the incident to eight.
Two people are killed and four others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitakunda upazila of Cox’s Bazaar.
At least 311 people were killed and 862 injured during Eid journey this year – showing a marked rise compared to last year, a welfare body says in a report.
