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...
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 government is going ahead with the initiative of January 2024 to enact a law to ensure road safety amid frequent fatal 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...
At least six people were killed in road accidents in three districts, namely Dinajpur, Sylhet and Chattogram, between Friday and Thursday night...
At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in five districts on Thursday...
At least six people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in Brahmanbaria, Bogura and Cumilla districts on Sunday...
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...
At least seven people were killed and 41 others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Sunamganj and Madaripur districts on Thursday...
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...
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...
At least six people were killed and eight others injured in road accidents in Tangail, Mymensingh and Sherpur districts on Monday...
At least six people, including a child, were killed and 17 others injured in separate road accidents in Munshiganj, Magura and Manikganj on Saturday...
At least seven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Barishal, Jashore and Gopalganj districts on Thursday...
At least four people were killed in road accidents in Meherpur, Sylhet and Cumilla on Wednesday...
At least five people, including a Higher Secondary School Certificate examinee, were killed in road accidents in Nilphamari, Meherpur, Jhenaidah and Naogaon on Wednesday...
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...
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...
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...
At least nine people were killed and 30 others injured in six road accidents in four districts, Dinajpur, Habiganj, Rajshahi and Magura, on Monday...
At least four people, including a garment worker, were killed and three others injured in road accidents in Gazipur, Rangpur, Jhenaidah and Madaripur on Wednesday...
At least five people, including a Secondary School Certificate examinee, were killed in road accidents in Rangpur, Dhaka and Satkhira on Tuesday...
At least five people were killed in road accidents in Chattogram, Gazipur and Bagerhat districts on Sunday...
At least 583 people were killed and 1,202 more injured in 567 road crashes in the country in April, said a Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh report published on Tuesday...
At least five people were killed in road accidents in Dhaka, Bogura and Satkhira districts between Sunday night and Monday...
At least nine people were killed in road accidents in Rangamati, Munshiganj and Patuakhali districts on Saturday...
A REPORT that Dhaka鈥檚 north city authorities and the city police have prepared says that about 61 per cent of all fatal victims of road accidents that took place in the areas under the north city authority jurisdiction in 2023 were pedestrians. The report was made public at a meeting on road safety that the Road Transport and Highways Division and the Bloomberg...
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...
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...
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...