Eight killed, 39 injured in five districts
At least eight people, including a woman, were killed and 39 others injured in road accidents on Monday in Jamalpur, Habiganj, Moulvibazar, Gopalganj and Tangail districts...
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Women, children among 13 killed in road accidents
At least 13 people, including five children and four women, were killed and eight others injured in separate road accidents in Chattogram, Noakhali, Pabna, Sherpur, Nilphamari, Madaripur and Bagerhat districts between Saturday night and Sunday...
Eight killed, 14 injured in road accidents in five dists
At least eight people were killed and 14 others injured in road accidents in five districts鈥擩halakati, Naogaon, Lalmonirhat, Dhaka and Faridpur鈥攆rom Friday night to Saturday...
Eight killed, 13 injured in road accidents in 4 districts
At least eight people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Feni, Naogaon, Jhenaidah and Narayanganj on Thursday...
6 killed in road accidents in 3 districts
At least six people, including 4 in Gazipur, were killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in three districts on Monday...
Khulna Univ student among six killed in road accidents in four dists
At least six people, including a female student of Khulna University, were killed and scores injured in five road accidents in four districts, namely Bandarban, Habiganj, Noakhali and Gopalganj districts on Wednesday, according to 抖阴精品 correspondents and news agencies...
Regulatory failure keeps risky vehicles on road
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...
Govt, too, is indifferent towards road safety issues
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...
Weak oversight fuels surge in motorcycle mishap deaths
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...
BRTA compensates 24 Chattogram victim families
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.
Yet another road safety law under way
The government is going ahead with the initiative of January 2024 to enact a law to ensure road safety amid frequent fatal road accidents...
Baby, elderly among four killed in road accidents
A toddler and an elderly man were among four people who were killed in road accidents in Bogura, Sherpur and Netrakona districts on Saturday...
Baby among 6 killed in road accidents in three dists
At least six people were killed in road accidents in three districts, namely Dinajpur, Sylhet and Chattogram, between Friday and Thursday night...
Road accidents kill 8 people
At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in five districts on Thursday...
Minor girl among six killed in road accidents in 3 dists
At least six people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in Brahmanbaria, Bogura and Cumilla districts on Sunday...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
6 killed in road accidents in three districts
At least six people, including a child, were killed and 17 others injured in separate road accidents in Munshiganj, Magura and Manikganj on Saturday...
7 killed, 13 injured in road accidents
At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Barishal, Jashore and Gopalganj districts on Thursday...
4 killed in road accidents
At least four people were killed in road accidents in Meherpur, Sylhet and Cumilla on Wednesday...
5 killed in road accidents
At least five people, including a Higher Secondary School Certificate examinee, were killed in road accidents in Nilphamari, Meherpur, Jhenaidah and Naogaon on Wednesday...
Road accidents kill 390 people across Bangladesh during Eid-ul-Azha vacation
At least 390 people were killed and 1,182 more injured in 379 road accidents across Bangladesh during Eid-ul-Azha, said a Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report published on Monday...
10 killed, 36 hurt in road accidents
At least 10 people were killed and 36 others injured in road accidents in eight districts, namely Gopalganj, Madaripur, Barishal, Sylhet, Bogura, Narsingdi, Nilphamari and Sherpur, on Sunday...
Four killed, 20 injured in road accidents
At least four people, including a mother and her daughter, were killed and 20 more were injured in two separate road crashes in Pabna and Mymensingh districts on Wednesday...
Govt should head off all ills around sacrificial animals
EID comes every time with some concern for the authorities to attend to. It is mostly the safety of people when they leave the capital city for outlying areas before Eid and when they get back to the city after Eid. So many people travelling at a time burdens the transport network and the system, with traffic accidents taking place, causing fatalities and injuries. The burden...
