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520 people killed in road accidents in July: report

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.

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Two people killed in Dhaka road accident

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...

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Road accidents kill 8 people

At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in five districts on Thursday...

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Road accident kills seven of a family

At least seven females, including three children, were killed as a speeding microbus carrying members of an Oman expatriate’s family plunged into a roadside canal in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district early Wednesday...

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BRTC double-decker crashes into Farmgate pillar

A Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation double-decker bus rammed into a pillar of the Elevated Expressway at Farmgate in Dhaka city on Tuesday, causing a brief traffic disruption on the busy road...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Road management should be equally prioritised

DILAPIDATED roads and water stagnation are recurring woes for residents of Dhaka during the monsoon. A photograph published in ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· on July 19 showed covered vans and rickshaws paddling through dilapidated and muddy roads in the North Jurain area. In the past few days, similar situations of water stagnation were reported from other parts of Dhaka...

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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’s rally in Dhaka...

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Transport owners to stage 24-hr strike in Chattogram on July 20 

The Greater Chattogram Public and Goods Transport Owners Federation has announced a 24-hour suspension of all services in Chattogram and five surrounding districts for July 20, pressing for amendment to the Road Transport Act 2018, among other demands...

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CNG drivers block Banani road, causing congestion

A group of CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked the main road in front of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority office at Banani in Dhaka, crippling traffic for about six hours on the Uttara–Mohakhali road and causing huge sufferings to the people...

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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...