The act mentions a trust fund for victims, but it took four years after its passing for the fund to be set up.
The core problem lies in the fragmented ownership of public transport.
As of September this year, road crashes and fatalities have seen a year-on-year increase of more than 10 percent, according to government data.
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
Will we ever see an end to this menace?
What’s most appalling is how common these violations of crucial road safety measures are in our country
Famous singer Pagol Hasan was among two people killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sunamganj's Chhatak upazila this morning.
In a tragic accident in Sunamganj's Chhatak, a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw resulted in the deaths of two individuals, including popular musician Pagol Hasan.
What we need is strict implementation of our existing regulations.
Two people including a constable of highway police killed and three others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla.
An unidentified woman is killed after a truck hit her at Sabujbagh in Dhaka.
Two people including a female SSC examinee are killed in separate road accidents in Mymensingh today.
2 members of Rapid Action Battalion were killed and six others injured in a head on collision between a truck and a Rab pick-up van in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.
Although there have been umpteen campaigns and reports from road safety activists and media and regular public outcry to make our roads safer there is no brake on road crash incidents.
A doctor, his wife, daughter and their domestic help died when their car collided with a passenger bus in Comilla’s Daudkandi upazila. Two of his children are in critical condition.
The man was lying flat on the road, bleeding profusely. He raised his right hand and waved weakly for help. His motorbike was lying two feet away near the road divider only 50 yards off Hotel Radisson.
“It seemed to me that people in the cars do not have empathy for people. While they screamed at me, the pedestrians and poorer ones came to help. What will we do with this so-called education and social status?” Saif writes after the injured man whom three hospitals declined to treat died in his car.
Three people are killed as a bus hit a motorcycle in Golachipa upazila of Patuakhali.
A policeman is killed and three others injured as a police pickup van falls into a roadside ditch after being hit by a truck at Kajirdighi on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Feni Sadar upazila.