Bangladesh road accidents
Structural killings, not road ‘accidents’
Regular deaths on the highways of Bangladesh have become quite a "normal" thing.
Safe roads before smart cities
Time to put people’s safety at the heart of policymaking
Road accidents eat up over 1.5pc of GDP
Over 80 percent of the 7,713 road crash victims last year were aged between 18 and 65 years, the most productive segment of the population, Road Safety Foundation said yesterday.
Result, not rhetoric, is key for road safety
New RTA rules can improve safety if properly enforced
Small vehicles shoot up, so do accidents
A sharp and unregulated growth of vehicles, especially motorcycles and three-wheelers, over the last few years has resulted in a spike in the numbers of road crashes and casualties.
Compensation For Death, Injury: Road crash victims can now legally claim it
The family of a person killed in a road crash due to reckless or negligent driving will get at least Tk 5 lakh in compensation.
7-yr-old runs to rail tracks while playing, train runs over
A seven-year-old boy was killed after a train ran over him in Dhaka’s Moghbazar Wireless area this afternoon (August 8, 2022).
Two die in truck-covered van collision in Sirajganj
Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a covered van in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early today.
Two killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka
Two persons died in separate accidents in Dhaka’s Bhatara and Tikatuli areas early today.
Expatriate, 2 family members killed in Gopalganj road accident
Three members of a family, including a Singapore returnee, has been killed and two others injured as a rented car lost control and hit a roadside railing on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gopalganj’s Kashani upazila.
Two killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka
Two persons are killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Airport and Uttara area.
3 labourers killed in Tangail road accident
Three day labourers were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Mirzapur upazila early today.
2 BGB men killed, 4 others injured in road crash in Rajshahi
Two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are killed and four others injured in a road accident on the Chapainawabganj-Dhaka highway in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.
168 killed, 283 injured in road crashes in 13 days during Eid rush: Jatri Kalyan Samity
At least 168 people are killed and 283 injured in 149 road crashes across the country in 13 days while travelling during the Eid-ul-Fitr festival and amid shut down, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.
3 dead from rear-end collision in Dhaka
Three persons, including the driver of a private car, were killed after another car hit it from behind in Dhaka's Kalyanpur last night.
3 killed as truck hits auto-rickshaw in Rangpur
Three passengers of a battery-run auto-rickshaw are killed and five others injured as a truck rammed into the vehicle on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Rangpur.
Chattogram road accident: death toll rises to 15
Three people, who were injured in yesterday’s road accident in Chattogram, succumbed, raising the death toll to 15.
Mother, daughter killed in Gazipur road crash
A woman and her daughter are killed and five others injured as a bus carrying them overturns on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.
3 including mother, daughter killed as bus hits rickshaw
Three people, including a woman and her daughter, are killed as a bus rammed into a rickshaw in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.