8 faulty bridges may cause fatal accidents
Eight faulty bridges on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway might lead to more fatal accidents in near future, speakers told a rally near Salehpur Bridge yesterday.
The bridges are Jorepool, Bank Town, Kohinoor Mill Gate, Kamalpur, Sutipara, Nayadingi, Uthuli and Salehpur Bridge, a place where a bus plunged into the River Turag last week, killing more than a dozen of people.
Save Environment Movement and Save Savar Movement jointly organised the citizens' rally near the bridge, the faulty construction of which has been blamed for the recent road accident.
A number of people, who attended the rally to draw attention of the government, demanded reconstruction of the bridge with enough space for easy vehicular movement to and from Dhaka city.
More than 21 people were killed in a separate road accident near the Salehpur Bridge in 2006, the organisations said in a press release.
They also urged the government to widen the Salahepur Bridge and remove other narrow bridges on the highway immediately to save lives from further accidents.
According to a recent study, more than 12,000 people are killed in road accidents each year in Bangladesh. Much of the accidents are attributed to faulty road and bridge constructions, reckless driving and huge traffic movement in narrow highways.
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