road accident

Mother, daughter among four killed on roads

At least four people, including a mother and her infant daughter, were killed, and 20 others were injured in road crashes in Pabna and Mymensingh yesterday.

Bus helper killed, 19 injured in Mymensingh road accident

Police have seized the bus and a case has been filed with the police station

Eid evening at Pongu Hospital / Of overflowing emergency and lingering waits

Sufia Begum, a 55-year-old woman from Munshiganj’s Sreenagar, suffered severe injuries to her right hand when a motorcycle struck her on the day of Eid-ul-Azha (Saturday) when she was crossing a road near her home.

Two motorcyclists die after being run over by truck in Banani

The accident occurred around 9:00am near the Kakoli bus stand

Four of family die as bus hits ambulance

For long, Billal Fakir, 40, and his family wanted a fourth child. On the day their wish was to be granted, fate betrayed them.

Truck runs over, kills SSC examinee in Uttara

An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.

41 lives lost on roads during Eid holidays

Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.

Vacation turns into tragedy: 10 die in road crash on Dhaka-Ctg highway

A passenger bus and a microbus collided head-on in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram

November 18, 2024
November 18, 2024

Banker killed as rickshaw crushed in bus-truck collision

A man was killed and another injured when a battery-run rickshaw was crushed following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Dhaka's Paltan area early yesterday.

November 2, 2024
November 2, 2024

BU student’s death in road crash: Bus driver arrested

The students of the university blocked Barishal-Kuakata-Barguna-Bhola regional routes protesting the accident

October 27, 2024
October 27, 2024

Six die as truck, three-wheeler collide

Six people were killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on Itakhola-Monohardi road in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila yesterday afternoon.

June 24, 2024
June 24, 2024

Eid journey: Road crashes kill 262 people in 13 days

At least 262 people were killed and 543 were injured in 251 road crashes in the 13 days centring the Eid-ul-Azha holiday, Road Safety Foundation said today

May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024

708 killed in 683 road accidents in April: report

At least 708 people were killed and 2,426 injured in 683 road crashes last month, Bangladesh Jatri Klyan Samity said today

May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024

Why can’t road crashes be curbed?

The Road Transport and Highways Division has called a meeting tomorrow with the divisional commissioners and deputy inspector general of ranges to find out why the number of road crashes cannot be controlled.

April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024

Barring unfit vehicles an unimplementable order

The Police Headquarters yesterday instructed all its field level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearance to operate on the roads. But is it implementable?

April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024

Don’t allow unfit vehicles on roads

Amid rising road crashes, the Police Headquarters has instructed all its field-level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearances to operate.

April 20, 2024
April 20, 2024

Road crash near HSIA: Bus driver arrested

Rapid Action Battalion arrested the driver of Raida Paribahan bus that rammed a motorcycle near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka killing an engineer of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh yesterday

April 20, 2024
April 20, 2024

CAAB engineer killed as bus rams his bike

An engineer at CAAB died yesterday after a bus rammed his motorcycle near the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka before crashing through the boundary wall in front of the airport’s third terminal.