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...
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.
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...
A man was killed after being hit by an unidentified vehicle in the capital鈥檚 Kadamtali area on early Saturday...
At least six people were killed in road accidents in three districts, namely Dinajpur, Sylhet and Chattogram, between Friday and Thursday night...
Three people were killed and seven others were injured as two buses collided on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Kanaipur Bazar in Faridpur district on Thursday...
At least 520 people were killed and 1,356 others were injured in 506 road accidents across the country in July, according to a report published by the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh issued on Tuesday.
A case was filed against the driver of the microbus that plunged into a canal in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali allegedly due to the driver falling asleep...
Two unidentified people were killed and another was injured when a private car crashed into the divider of Mohakhali flyover in Amtoli area of Mohakhali on Saturday...
At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in five districts on Thursday...
Three people were killed and one was injured in a head-on collision between a pickup truck and a motorcycle in Dhanbari Upazila in Tangail on early Thursday...
At least seven females, including three children, were killed as a speeding microbus carrying members of an Oman expatriate鈥檚 family plunged into a roadside canal in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district early Wednesday...
At least six people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in Brahmanbaria, Bogura and Cumilla districts on Sunday...
Three Bangladeshis were killed and two others injured after a multipurpose vehicle they were in skidded off the road at East Coast Highway 1 near in Kuantan of Malaysia on Friday.
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...
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 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.
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.
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...
At least seven people were killed and 41 others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Sunamganj and Madaripur districts on Thursday...