Road-Accidents

Pedestrians are the biggest victims of road accidents in the capital. Over the past six years, pedestrians accounted for 42 percent of those killed in road accidents in Dhaka. Most of these fatalities occurred at night. Heavy vehicles traveling at reckless speeds, inadequate street lighting and a lack of pedestrian friendly infrastructure have turned the capital’s roads into death traps for pedestrians at night. According to a recent analysis by the Road Safety Foundation, 1,849 road acci...

In 2022, on the morning of May 29, a bus lost control and crashed into a tree at a curve in the Sanuhar area of Uzirpur on the Barishal-Kuakata Highway, killing 10 people on the spot. Two days later, a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at the same location claimed two more lives. Accidents continue to occur regularly at the curve. Most recently, on the night of June 29, a motorcyclist was killed in a collision between a pickup van and a motorcycle in front of the Tanti Board are...