Road accidents kill 4
Four people were killed in road accidents in Sylhet, Brahmanbaria, Sherpur and Patuakhali on Thursday.
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Fewer Eid-time accidents are still too many
AT LEAST 322 people died and 826 became wounded in 315 road accidents during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, keeping to Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh figures. While the report notes some progress in view the corresponding 2024 occasion, as accidents reduced by 21.05 per cent, fatalities by 20.88 per cent and injuries by 40.91 per cent, the overall figures remain...
322 killed in Eid time road accidents: report
At least 322 people were killed and 826 others injured in 315 road crashes in 15 days during the last Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, said a report of the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh on Wednesday...
7 killed as bus plunges into ditch
Seven people, including three women and a child, were killed and 31 others injured when a running bus veered off the road to plunge into a ditch in Faridpur on Tuesday...
23 killed daily in road accidents during Eid: report
Nearly 23 people were killed daily on average in road accidents between March 26 and April 5 during Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of Muslims, according to a Road Safety Foundation report published on Monday...
Safe Eid journey still remains a far cry
THOUSANDS travel to outlying areas from the capital to celebrate Eid with friends and family and the journey almost always remains risky. This was no different this Eid. Road accidents left at least 41 dead and numerous others wounded across the country during Eid holidays. In an accident at the Chunti Jangalia point on the Chattogram鈥揅ox鈥檚 Bazar Highway on April 2, a...
Four killed in road accidents聽
At least four people, including two minors, were killed in road accidents across Bangladesh on Friday.
Six killed in road accidents
At least six people, including a father and his two minor daughters, were killed and 22 others were injured in road accidents across the country on Thursday...
No case, arrest yet over Ctg road accident
The government will take all necessary steps to ensure medical treatment for those injured in a recent road accident at Lohagara upazila in Chattogram, said Faruk E Azam, the adviser to the liberation war affairs and disaster management ministries...
Two people killed in Jashore road accident
A man and his nephew were killed when a car hit a motorbike on Jashore-Benapole highway in Sarsha upazila of Benapole on Wednesday night...
42 killed in road accidents during Eid holiday across Bangladesh
At least 42 people were killed and 63 others were injured in road accidents across Bangladesh during the Eid vacation in four days between Sunday and Wednesday...
Man, nephew killed in Kushtia road accident
A man and his nephew were killed and another one was injured when a private car hit a motorbike on Kushtia-Jhenaidah road in Kushita district town early Wednesday...
10 killed, two injured in Chattogram road accident
At least 10 people were killed and two others injured as a bus collided head-on with two microbuses on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway at Chunty point under Lohagara upazila in Chattogram Wednesday morning...
Three killed, 25 injured in Cumilla road accident
Three people were killed and at least 25 others were injured as a bus crashed into an electric pole and a tree in Chandina upazila of Cumilla on Dhaka-Chattogram highway on Tuesday evening...
Four of a family killed in Mymensingh road accident
A 95-year-old woman, her daughter, and two granddaughters were killed as a bus collided with their auto-rickshaw in Gouripur upazila Sunday morning....
Two people killed, 21 others injured in Bogura road accident
Two people were killed and 21 others injured as a truck hit a pedestrian and then crashed into a human hauler, locally known as Bhotbhoti, on Sherpur-Dhunat regional road in Bogura鈥檚 Sherpur upazila on Friday morning, said police...
7 killed, 13 injured in road accidents in 3 dists
At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Jashore, Jaipurhat and Thakurgaon between Tuesday night and Wednesday...
Three people killed in Jashore road accident
Three people were killed and two others were injured in a collision between an ambulance and an engine-run van on Jashore-Benapole highway in Jashore on early Wednesday...
3 killed, 3 injured in road accidents
At least three people were killed and three others were injured in separate road accidents in Bogura and Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Monday.
Couple among 5 killed in road accidents
At least five people were killed and eight injured in road accidents in Gazipur, Munshiganj and Tangail on Saturday...
4 killed in road accidents in 3 dists
Four people were killed and several others injured in road accidents in Sylhet, Feni, Pabna and Jamalpur on Friday.
Siblings among three killed in Chattogram road accident
At least three people, including two school-going siblings, were killed as a speeding bus collided with a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Chandanaish upazila in Chattogram on Thursday morning.
BGB man killed in Benapole road accident while chasing 鈥榮mugglers鈥�
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh was killed and another was injured as a motorbike carrying them crashed into a roadside tree while chasing smugglers at Benapole in Jashore on Tuesday night...
Govt needs to make roads pedestrian-friendly
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
BRTA temporarily adjourns registration of pickup van involved in Banani accident
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority on Monday temporarily adjourned the registration of the pickup van which hit two readymade garment workers, leaving one dead and one injured in Dhaka city on the same day...
Three people killed in truck-auto rickshaw collision
Three people were killed and three others were injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a truck at village Chanpur Bridge in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh on Monday...
RMG workers block road as covered van kills fellow
Readymade garment workers on Monday blocked the airport road as well as the elevated expressway in Banani鈥檚 Chairmanbari area in the capital Dhaka, protesting at the death of a fellow worker in a road accident in the morning.
5 killed in road accidents in 3 districts
At least five people, including a freedom fighter, were killed in separate road accidents in Feni, Kurigram and Bogura between Saturday night and Sunday.
Road accidents kill 578 in February: report
At least 578 people were killed and 1,327 more injured in 596 road crashes in the country in February, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday.
Two people killed in Jamalpur road accident
Two people were killed and three others injured in a triangular crash among two trucks and a motorbike on Jamalpur-Mymensingh highway at Jamalpur municipality area on Saturday...
