Tag: road safety
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124 students died in road accidents this April
However, according to Road Safety Foundation records, 6,524 people died on the roads last year. And, 1,053 of them were students. This means that 16 percent of the total road deaths last year were actually students. Syedur Rahman, executive director of the Road Safety Foundation, told Prothom Alo that road traffic rates are higher among…
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Road transport: speed limit is not the only problem
The guidelines on speed limit of motor vehicles issued last Sunday from the Road Transport and Highways Division of the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges clearly appear to be a good initiative. However, there are doubts whether this will restore order on the roads or not. As per the guidelines, the maximum speed limit…
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Heatwave: Vehicles stuck on melted road
Heatwave: Vehicles stuck on melted road
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Highway killings: rampant road accidents in Bangladesh
Accidents happen due to unfit vehicles, unlicensed driving, potholes on the road, tired and sleepy drivers, illegal vehicles and common people have to pay the price. They bear the pain of losing their loved ones, they fall into financial crisis when the earning member of the family is lost. Housing and Public Works Ministry liftman…
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CUET protest: Transport owners, workers and BRTA need to wake up
Professor Hadiuzzaman, former director of the Accident Research Institute of Bangladesh University of Science and Technology (BUET), told Prothom Alo that working age people and students have more movement on the roads and hence they are becoming more victims of road mismanagement . Notably, after the student protests demanding road safety in 2018 that shook…
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17 killed in separate road accidents, 9 killed in Sajek. Tragic incidents across Bangladesh
40 year old Saddam Hussain is a resident of the same area. In Comilla, a farmer Hanif, 55, was crushed under a microbus on the Dhaka-Amirabad-Kachua road in Dakshin Mohammadpur village of Daudkandi upazila around 1:00 pm. He is a resident of the same village. Apart from this, 30-year-old auto-rickshaw driver Nazimuddin died after being…
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Dhaka Elevated Expressway: FDC-end ramp opened
Dhaka Elevated Expressway: FDC-end ramp opened
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1,100 children killed in road accidents in 2023: Road Safety Foundation report
The report cited unplanned construction of roads, lack of proper maintenance and careless movement of vehicles as the main reasons behind the deaths of children on the roads. However, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Chairman Noor Mohammad Majumdar claimed that the roads are now being constructed in a planned manner. He said, “We have been…
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Even after repair of TK 4B, Jashore-Khulna road is in dilapidated condition.
Even after repair of TK 4B, Jashore-Khulna road is in dilapidated condition.
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People from the ruling party are hindering discipline in the transport sector: RSF
In the press conference, several recommendations were made to bring order in the area. Recommendations include increasing initiatives to produce trained drivers, fixing working hours of drivers, building capacity of BRTA, banning low-speed vehicles on highways, constructing road dividers on every highway, eliminating extortion in the public transport sector. Including stopping, refurbishing the rail. tracks…
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BRAC Driving School opens new branch in Chattogram
Chattogram’s Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Abdul Mannan Miah, in his speech as the chief guest, emphasized that Bangladesh is facing a shortage of one billion professional drivers. Currently, driving is one of the most sought after professions across the world. Addressing the graduates of BRAC Driving School Chattogram, he said, “Consider yourself fortunate to…
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air pollution from old vehicles
When the government chose this option, the air quality in Dhaka city was extremely poor. According to the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday, Dhaka once again topped the list of most polluted cities in the world. The Bangladesh Road Transport Owners’ Association, along with various associations representing truck and covered van operations, took a…
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Why the Road Transport Act is not being fully implemented in Bangladesh, resulting in increasing number of accidents and casualties
Last Saturday, a tragic incident took place at Sitakund in Chattogram, where a lorry carrying a heavy container weighing 35 tonnes fell on a moving private car. Now it cannot be kept in the category of mere accident. Such incidents have become worryingly frequent. In May last year, a container carrying goods fell on a…
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Two killed in road accident in Ghazipur
Ten people, including the driver of the microbus, were injured. After the accident, he was taken to Ghazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital and Sheikh Faziltunnes Mujib Memorial Hospital. Doctors in the hospital declared two injured dead. SI Kashem said that the bodies have been kept in those two hospitals while the injured are…
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‘Law enforcement, awareness needed to ensure motorcyclists wear standard helmets’
The fatality rate in road accidents involving motorcycles is high because most of the helmets used by the riders are substandard in the country. While 100 per cent riders in Dhaka city wear helmets, it is time to pay attention to the helmet standard and raise awareness about the need to wear helmets outside the…