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.
At least 224 people are killed and 866 injured in 203 road accidents in 12 days of this month (August) across country, a passengers' welfare platform has said.
Thirteen people are killed in separate road accidents in Feni, Faridpur and Kishoreganj districts.
A man is killed in a road accident at Airport Road in capital Dhaka.
An accident on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway leaves three cattle traders dead and six others injured.
At least four construction workers are killed and 13 injured as a lorry turned turtle in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali.
Four people are killed as a truck rams a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj.
The father of Golam Kibria, a traffic police sergeant who was killed in a road accident last month, has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directives on the authorities concerned for Tk 10 crore compensation for his family.
Three people have been killed and three others injured in three separate road accidents in Brahmanbaria and Naryanganj districts.
A writ petition is filed with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to give as compensation Tk 1 crore to the family of each of the 11 victims who died when a train rammed a microbus at a level crossing in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj on July 15.
At least four people are killed and one injured in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Bagerhat.
