AN INCREASING number of illegally modified covered vans plying the road is another example of a regulatory failure in the transport sector. A Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report shows that 23.33 per cent of the road accidents in 2024 involved covered vans, trucks and pickups. The modified bodies of the vehicles, usually illegal extensions in length and width...
Covered vans which mostly are modified beyond allowed limits have posed a serious risk to road safety as such goods-carrying vehicles are often involved in fatal road accidents across Bangladesh, said experts, campaigners and transport worker leaders.
At least 428 people were killed and 791 others were injured in 451 road crashes across Bangladesh in August, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation issued on Monday.
Three people, including a police officer, were killed in a road accident on Jashore-Bagharpara highway in Bhangura Bazar area of Bagharpara Upazila on Sunday night...
PUBLIC transports remains fatally unsafe for passengers as the interim government has so far kept the sector off its reform agenda. The Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh on September 13 reported that at least 86,690 people died and 153,257 became wounded in 62,619 road accidents in 11 years. The number of fatalities, however shocking, is not surprising as...
At least 86,690 people were killed and 1,53,257 more injured in 62,619 road accidents in the country in the past 11 years, according to the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh...
At least eight people were killed in road accidents in Sunamganj, Sylhet, Lakshmipur, Chattogram and Mymensingh districts from Friday night to Saturday.
At least four people, including a child, were killed and four others injured in three road accidents in Chattogram and Feni districts on Friday.
AN ALARMING increase in motorcycle accidents and consequent fatalities suggests both lax enforcement of traffic regulations and motorcyclists鈥� proclivity to disregard them. The photograph that 抖阴精品 published on September 9 shows three teenagers, in school uniforms and without helmets, riding a motorcycle in the rain near the Teacher-Student Centre on the...
Five people were killed and five others injured when a bus plunged into a canal on Laxmipur-Dhaka road in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College on Saturday, the police said.
At least three people, including a student of Rajshahi University, were killed in road accidents in Manikganj and Rajshahi on Wednesday night and Thursday...
A dump truck driver and his assistant were killed when their vehicle was struck by a train at an unguarded railway crossing in Gazipur鈥檚 Sadar Thana area on early Wednesday...
At least 502 people were killed and 1,232 others were injured in 497 road crashes across Bangladesh in August, according to a report published by the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh issued on Wednesday...
A major accident was averted at Potiya in Chattogram on Monday night when the engine of Dhaka-bound Tourist Express train detached, leaving 19 compartments stranded at Komolmunshir Hat station...
Two people were killed when a microbus and a battery-run easy-bike plunged into a roadside ditch after a collision between them on Panchagarh-Tetulia highway in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh district on Friday night...
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has given Tk 1.8 crore in compensation to the families of 24 individuals who lost their lives in road accidents in Chattogram.
The road safety campaigns implemented by the authorities concerned in the past six financial years until FY24 utterly failed amid a surge in fatal road accidents in the country.
A schoolboy was killed and two others were injured in a high-speed motorcycle accident in Gangni upazila of Meherpur on Tuesday evening...
Three people, including a woman, were killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a three-wheeler and a pickup van on Khulna-Satkhira highway at Dumuria upazila in Khulna district on Monday morning...
Vehicular movement on the Jamuna Bridge lane used by vehicles bound for the northern districts was disrupted for about three hours on Sunday as a truck, a covered van and a milk-carrier vehicle hit each other at dawn, halting the traffic.聽
Two people, including a van driver, were killed as a speeding bus crashed into a van on Natore-Bogura highway in Natore on Saturday night...
At least eight people, including four members of a family, were killed in road accidents in Cumilla, Munshiganj and Gazipur between Thursday night and Friday.
Three people, including a couple, were killed and another was injured when a speeding car overturned on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Sholghar area under Srinagar upazila in Munshiganj on Thursday.
The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, provincial officials said on Wednesday...
As many as 380 people were killed and 542 others injured in 427 road accidents across Bangladesh in July, according to a report of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority...
Around 17 per cent and around 13 per cent fatal road accident victims were women and children respectively in the past month of July, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Tuesday.
The government is going ahead with the initiative of January 2024 to enact a law to ensure road safety amid frequent fatal road accidents...
At least 10 people, including five in Chattogram, were killed and four more were injured in five road accidents in five districts on Monday...
A toddler and an elderly man were among four people who were killed in road accidents in Bogura, Sherpur and Netrakona districts on Saturday...
Two people were killed after being run over by train in Rajshahi and Naogaon on Saturday...