At least five people were killed, and four others injured, when a speeding truck ploughed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw stand along the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

Two garment factory employees are killed in separate road accidents on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar upazila of Dhaka.

The bus driver involved in the deadly Natore crash is remanded and his helper bailed in connection to the case filed over the crash.

A train ploughed into a bus early yesterday at a level crossing, killing at least one man and injuring over 20 others, two critically, almost 12 hours after the manually-operated barrier malfunctioned.

Two people are killed and 20 others injured in a road crash at Daudkandi upazilla of Comilla.

A BNP leader is killed and two others are injured in a road accident at Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.

At least four persons were killed in separate road accidents across four districts yesterday.

Three people were killed when an empty bus ran over two on a motorbike and ploughed into several shops before pinning a schoolgirl to the wall of a shop at Nawdapara market in Rajshahi city yesterday.

Two people including a school student were killed and 20 others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, report our correspondents.

At least seven people, including four children, were killed and 10 others injured as a bus collided head-on with a microbus carrying a bridal party in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi yesterday morning.

The helper was driving the reckless bus that hit the car of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area last night amid the ongoing Traffic Week.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says road accident is the number one cause of deaths in Bangladesh rather than cancer or kidney diseases.

Drivers, mostly overworked and underpaid, are often blamed for Bangladesh's high traffic casualty rate - road accidents kill or injure at least five people an hour in the country - and the resentment against them has been aggravated by the deaths of the two students last Friday.

The car of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is hit by a reckless bus in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area amid the ongoing Traffic Week.

Five people, including two minor girls, were killed and 45 others injured in road accidents in Gaibandha, Khagrachhari, Savar and Munshiganj yesterday.

Two brothers were killed in a road crash and another injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run autorickshaw in Hetimganj area of Golapganj upazila in Sylhet yesterday morning.

In order to prevent road accidents in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gives several directives to concerned authorities which include a restriction on drivers plying their vehicles on the highways five hours at a stretch.

Come road tragedies, come rhetorical reactions. Probe committees are formed, recommendations made and all left to be forgotten till the next major crashes.

A one-year-old boy is killed as a truck hit his mother while crossing a road with the child at Signboard area of Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

Four people are killed in a head-on collision between two trucks on Bangabandhu Bridge link road in Kalihati upazila of Tangail today.