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.
The number of road accidents saw a marked rise in the last two years due to a growing number of motorcycles, says a new survey of Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa).
Four motorcyclists, including a father and his son and a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, were killed in separate road accidents in Kishoreganj and Chattogram yesterday.
The month of August this year has seen 314 road accidents across Bangladesh which killed 357 people including 50 women and 60 children, says a survey report.
Reckless driving claimed five more lives yesterday amid the nationwide student protest for road safety.
Transport owners acknowledge deaths of two college students as murder and demand highest punishment for those responsible for it.
At least six people are killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a private car in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila, police say.
At least 2,471 people are killed on roads this year, an independent body says blaming unruly transport sector by large for the rally of the dead.
Fifty-two people were killed, including 18 in one crash in Gaibandha, on the country's roads yesterday.
At least 35 people are killed and 82 others injured in road accidents in eight districts. Among the victims, 16 are killed in Gaibandha, six in Rangpur, two each in Natore, Gopalganj, Sirajganj, Faridpur, Laxmipur districts and one in Savar of Dhaka district.
At least four people are killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Naogaon districts.
