Road accidents shouldn't be taken lightly

The number of road accidents that happen in our country is extremely high. People losing their lives in road accidents is almost always in the news. Recently, for example, 10 people have lost their lives over a span of 2 days only in the Gazipur district. According to a report released by the World Bank, almost twenty thousand people lose their life through road accidents in our country. Many more are probably severely injured in a way that affects them for the rest of their lives.

What if they are the sole earners of their family? Does it not gravely affect many more than those who are directly involved in the accidents? The severity of this problem, thus, is way beyond what we normally imagine and think it to be.

So it is high time that the authorities took the matter seriously and sincerely sought to fix it. We want to see quick but substantive measures from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority. We also want to see a much greater effort put in by the traffic police and other authorities. This is not a problem to take lightly, nor one that cannot be fixed with the right effort.