India road accident kills 18 pilgrims
At least 18 people were killed in eastern India on Tuesday after a bus ferrying Hindu pilgrims collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders, officials said...
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No scope for legal leniency if govt wants to stop road accidents
ROAD safety has continuously been put at bay as the number of fatal accidents has only increased for seven years since the road safety movement in 2018 after a bus killed two college students in Dhaka on July 29 that year. The government made the Road Transport Act 2018 in September that year. Police data show that 2,635 died in road accidents...
Only 4pc road accident victims given compensation in 2.5 years
Only a little more than 4 per cent road accident victims and their families have been given compensation after the scheme was introduced two and a half years ago, shows government data.
Road accidents across Bangladesh on rise
Fatal road crashes have been on the rise in Bangladesh over the seven years since students erupted in massive protests after two college students died as a bus rammed them to a wall in the capital on July 29, 2018.
Teenager killed in Dhaka road accident
A teenage boy was killed in a road crash after being hit by a truck at the Bangabhaban intersection under Paltan Police Station in the capital on Saturday night...
Seven killed, 41 injured in road accidents
At least seven people were killed and 41 others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Sunamganj and Madaripur districts on Thursday...
Three people killed, 10 injured in Faridpur road accident
At least three people were killed and 10 others were injured in a head-on collision between two buses in the Karimpur area on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur on Thursday morning...
Eight killed in Natore road accident
An elderly couple, their four female relatives along with another woman and the driver of the microbus they were travelling on were killed in a head-on collision with a truck on Bonpara-Hatikumrul Highway at Baraigram upazila in Natore on Wednesday...
Two Jamaat leaders killed in Faridpur road accident
Two leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district on early Saturday on their way to attend the party鈥檚 rally in Dhaka...
3 of a family among 6聽 killed in road accidents
At least six people, including three members of a family, were killed in road accidents in Gazipur and Sylhet districts between Thursday night and Friday afternoon.
Three people killed, 15 injured in Magura road accident
Three people died and 15 others sustained injuries as a bus crashed into a battery-run van on Magura-Jhenaidah Highway in Magura Sadar upazila...
Five killed in road accidents
At least five people were killed and 13 other injured in road accidents in Kurigram, Narsingdi, Magura and Sylhet districts between Saturday night and Sunday evening...
Young man killed in road accident near Dhaka airport
A 32-year-old man was killed in a road accident in front of Terminal-3 of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport under Airport Police Station on Saturday night...
12 killed in 10 motorcycle accidents in 6 months
Twelve people, including 11 motorcyclists, were killed in 10 road accidents on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway and Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in the past six months...
Three people killed, 50 others injured in Rangpur road accident
Three people including a child were killed and 50 others were injured after a bus plunged into a pond at Deuti Beltola in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur district on Wednesday night...
Toll of Air India disaster rests at 260 as focus turns to crash report
Indian forensic investigators have identified all 260 people killed in last month鈥檚 crash of a London-bound passenger plane, health authorities said Wednesday, ahead of a hugely anticipated preliminary report into what went wrong...
Elderly man killed in Dhaka road accident
A 52-year-old man was killed after being crushed between two buses while crossing the road near Bakshi Bazar intersection in front of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka鈥檚 Chawkbazar area on early Wednesday...
Chinese national killed in Dinajpur coal mine accident
A Chinese national lost his life on Tuesday after being crushed by a hydraulic jack deep inside the Barapukuria Coal Mine in Dinajpur...
6 killed in road accidents
At least six people were killed and eight others injured in road accidents in Tangail, Mymensingh and Sherpur districts on Monday...
Two killed in Jashore road accident
Two people were killed, and three others injured in a road accident in Jashore鈥檚 Monirampur Upazila Sunday afternoon...
2 DNCC cleaners killed in Khilkhet road accident
Two cleaners of Dhaka North City Corporation were killed after a covered hit them in Khilkhet, Dhaka, on early Sunday morning.
3 killed, 11 injured in road accidents in 3 dists
At least three people were killed and 11 injured in three separate road crashes in Sylhet, Magura, and Dinajpur districts on Saturday.
Two youths killed in Munshiganj road accident
Two young men were killed after a bus hit their motorbike in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district on Friday evening...
11 killed in road accidents in 6 district鈥檚
At least 11 people were killed in road accidents in Pabna, Munshiganj, Gopalganj, Satkhira, Jhenaidah, and Chuadanaga between Thursday night and Friday evening.
National managers should break inertia to make roads safe
THE road transport system continues to be plagued with an entrenched culture of lawlessness, weak regulation and consequent accidents. The latest Road Safety Foundation report says that 696 died and 1,867 became injured in 689 traffic accidents in June alone. This comes down to an average of 23 death a day. This also marks a 22.55 per cent increase in fatalities from...
23 killed daily in road accidents in June: RSF
In June this year, 23 people were killed daily on average in road accidents, according to a Road Safety Foundation report published on Wednesday...
422 workers killed in workplace accidents in 6 months: report
At least 422 workers lost their lives in 373 workplace accidents in the country between January and June this year, according to a report revealed by the Safety and Rights Society on Monday...
Students block Science Lab crossing after fellow killed in road accident
Several hundred students of Ideal College on Sunday afternoon blocked Science Laboratory crossing in Dhaka city for half an hour, demanding justice for the killing of their fellow in road accident over a month ago...
Three members of same family killed in Dhaka road accident
Three members of a family, including an engineering university student, were killed after being hit by a truck in Uttara area of Dhaka on early Sunday...
Youth killed in Tejgaon road accident
An unidentified youth was killed in a road accident in Tejgaon of the city in the early hours of Sunday...