At least 519 people died and 961 suffered injuries in 458 accidents across the country in August this year, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said in a press release today (September 3, 2022).
Another victim of the Mirsarai train-microbus collision lost the battle for life at Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 13.
Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.
A worker of an iron workshop died after falling from the roof of a running train in Laksham upazila of Cumilla early today.
A former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College died after a train hit him in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.
Three persons died under the wheels of two separate trains in the city’s Kuril area since last evening.
Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.
She tried to prevent her son from dying by suicide.
Two people are killed after they were hit by a train in Nakhalpara area of Tejgaon, Dhaka.
Two children save a freight train from an impending accident near Arani Railway Station in Rajshahi.
A train has rammed a private car on a level crossing in Jessore Sadar upazila leaving three people dead and one other injured.
Two people were crushed under the wheels of trains in separate incidents in Dhaka.
He got off the train just to get a paan. All his career he must have done it hundreds of times, but this would be his last.
Two physically challenged readymade garment workers are killed as a train hit them in Gazipur.
A garment worker dies under a train when he tried to save a child standing on the rail tracks in Dhaka’s Banani area.
The Daily Star has found out in a research that 50 percent of train accidents are because of unaware jaywalkers.
A passenger train has derailed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 30 people