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.
Two people are killed and eight others injured as a picnic bus hit a stationery truck on Khulna-Bagerhat highway near Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali’s shrine in Bagerhat Sadar upazila early today.
Three people including a North South University student are killed and another is injured in separate road accidents in Gulshan, Bongshal and Amin Bazar areas of Dhaka.
The death toll in Lalmonirhat road crash rose to five after two more people succumbed to injuries on their way to a hospital last night.
Some students of Pabna Medical College Hospital block Dhaka-Pabna highway for two hours protesting the death of their fellow in a road crash on February 13.
Two persons are killed and one other is injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narayanganj.
Two people die and three others are injured in two separate road crashes in Dhaka.
Clutching her father's fingers, 10-year-old Faija was crossing a road at Uttara yesterday morning. Her mother and younger brother were nearby.
A 10-year-old girl is run over by a microbus in Dhaka’s Uttara area when she was on her way to school. Deceased FaijaTahsina Shuchi, 10, was daughter of the daily Ittefaq’s Senior Journalist Faijul Islam.
The High Court has ordered the government to compensate Tk 1 lakh to the families of four children who died in road crashes recently.
At least eight persons were killed and two injured in separate road accidents across the country yesterday.
