reckless driving

A Licence to Kill

Why is it possible to manufacture and advertise a car that goes faster than the maximum allowable speed?

Why is nothing being done about the endless road crashes?

Those responsible for road safety must be held accountable for their failure to check deadly crashes

Taxi falls into Turag while overtaking bus

The ill-fated yellow-coloured taxicab was overtaking a bus near the bridge over Turag river in Savar, an eyewitness says.

Editorial / Road Transport Bill, 2018 falls short

The cabinet has given final approval to the proposed Road Transport Bill, 2018. There are some good measures in the proposed act like minimum educational qualification (Grade 8) and minimum age (18 years) to get a professional driver license, and introduction of a 12-point system which would lead to ultimately cancellation of license for violation of law.

Bus rams into road divider in Dhanmondi

A passenger bus rams into a road divider in Dhanmondi of Dhaka.

Editorial / Reckless driving cost lives!

We are shocked at the death of an elderly couple who were killed at the East Sheorapara bus stand on September 14 after being struck by a speeding car.

Reckless driving takes 10 lives

Ten people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a stone-laden truck and a bus in the district's Sherpur upazila yesterday.

Reckless Driving / Mother killed in front of six-year-old son

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.

Opinion: arresting for traffic rules violation is a crazy idea

In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?

January 27, 2016
January 27, 2016

Reckless driving ruins 2 families

Reckless driving virtually wiped out two families yesterday as slack enforcement of traffic rules continue to give law-breaking drivers impunity, exposing thousands of road users to the constant danger.

January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016

Reckless drivers continue to kill

The death of two budding young students apparently caused by reckless driving within a span of only eight hours, around Shahbagh area...

January 17, 2016
January 17, 2016

Twin tragedies strike within eight hours

She wanted a new school dress, white in colour, as she would be admitted to Tejgaon Government Girls High School. But what her

October 13, 2015
October 13, 2015

Evidence of alcohol found in Gulshan teen driver’s car

Police say they found evidence of alcohol inside the vehicle that rammed two rickshaws and injured four people in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015

CNG flips at Hatirjheel: 3 hurt

At least three people are injured as a speedy CNG-run auto-rickshaw flips several times after hitting road divider at Hatirjheel in Dhaka.

August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015

Highway accidents: The insane ideas

Every day as holidayers returned from home, scores died in road crashes. And this prompted the government to make some insanely funny decisions.

April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015

Reckless driving costs many lives

A few days ago we were returning to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar by a non AC night coach. The journey was very unpleasant.

March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015

Jannati gets bail finally

The High Court today granted bail to Jannati Hossain, a young entrepreneur detained in a murder case after her business partner Mostamsir Ashraf died in a car crash.

February 11, 2015
February 11, 2015

4 killed in Pabna road crash

4 killed in Pabna road crash

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