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.
3 bikers die in Dinajpur road accident
Three men are killed after their motorbike hit a roadside excavator in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur.
3 killed in Rangpur road crash
Three people are killed and two others are injured in a road accident involving a bus and an ambulance in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur.
21 died on roads every day
At least 7,855 people were killed and 13,330 others injured in 5,516 road crashes across the country last year, according to a platform working for passengers’ welfare.
Road crashes claim 11 lives in 5 districts
At least 12 people, including four of a family, have been killed in five road crashes and a train accident since Sunday night.
Road Accident: 5,227 killed in 2019
The number of road crashes and deaths saw a “alarming rise” last year compared to the previous year. At least 5,227 people were killed while 6,953 injured in 4,702 road accidents in 2019, Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa) said.
BB official, 2 daughters die in Sitakunda road crash
A Bangladesh Bank official and his two daughters are killed and his wife and son are injured in a road accident in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila.
Road crash: Injured Eden college student dies
A student of Eden Mohila College, who was injured after falling off a running motorcycle in Dhaka’s Bijoy Sarani area on Saturday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Road crashes due to apathy of drivers, helpers
A Dhaka court observes that students, youths even elderly people cannot avoid being crushed under the wheels of bus due to apathy and carelessness of the drivers and helpers. The court comes up with the observation while delivering a landmark verdict on death of 2 college students in a road accident.
Death of Dia-Rajib: 2 drivers, helper of Jabal-e-Noor buses get life term
Two drivers and a helper of two buses of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan have been sentenced to life term imprisonment over a road accident that killed students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College in Dhaka last year.
3 killed in bus-truck collision in Faridpur
A head-on collision between a bus and a truck kills at least three people and injured 25 others on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur.
