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 10 people are killed and 59 others injured in separate road accidents in four districts.
At least seven people are killed and 24 others injured in separate road accidents in Rangpur, Gaibandha and Comilla.
Ten people were killed and at least 11 others injured in road accidents in the capital and Mymensingh yesterday.
Three Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders are killed and a party activist is injured when a motorcycle carrying the four lost control and hit a truck in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria yesetdray.
A woman and her two-year-old daughter are killed and three injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Feni Sadar upazila.
A man is killed and eight people are injured following a head-on collision between two buses at Paltan intersection in Dhaka.
Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visits Hridoy, whose right hand was severed in a bus-truck collision last week in Gopalganj, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
At least four people are killed and two others injured when a train hit a covered van at a manned level crossing near Feni Railway Station.
Two motorcyclists are killed when their motorbike skids off the road while approaching Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover at Dholaipar point in the old part of Dhaka.
24 examinees of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) were killed in road accidents on their way to exam centers or other places in last six months, says a passengers' welfare platform.
