On the road again

The death of Notre Dame College student Nayeem Hasan under the wheels of a garbage truck in Gulistan on November 24 reignited the students' movement for safe roads that began several years ago when racing buses killed two students on airport road. They stopped vehicles on roads and checked their papers and licences of drivers. Those who failed to produce the papers and licences were handed over to the traffic policemen on duty there. They chanted slogans and showed red cards to chaos and corruption in the transport sector. They also distributed leaflets urging road users to obey traffic rules. But as they were demonstrating on the streets peacefully, students kept on getting killed in road crashes. Police stopped their processions and obstructed their sit-in programmes on several occasions.

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