reckless driving

When will our roads be safe?

Government must take steps to reduce the high number of road crash fatalities.
6 January 2025, 04:00 AM

Continued student deaths put the focus back on road safety

RSF data shows the urgency of strict interventions in transport sector
15 July 2024, 08:24 AM

A Licence to Kill

Why is it possible to manufacture and advertise a car that goes faster than the maximum allowable speed?
2 March 2023, 14:00 PM

Why is nothing being done about the endless road crashes?

Those responsible for road safety must be held accountable for their failure to check deadly crashes
6 December 2022, 05:07 AM

Taxi falls into Turag while overtaking bus

The ill-fated yellow-coloured taxicab was overtaking a bus near the bridge over Turag river in Savar, an eyewitness says.
21 July 2019, 16:53 PM

Road Transport Bill, 2018 falls short

The cabinet has given final approval to the proposed Road Transport Bill, 2018. There are some good measures in the proposed act like minimum educational qualification (Grade 8) and minimum age (18 years) to get a professional driver license, and introduction of a 12-point system which would lead to ultimately cancellation of license for violation of law.
7 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Bus rams into road divider in Dhanmondi

A passenger bus rams into a road divider in Dhanmondi of Dhaka.
1 June 2018, 14:56 PM

Reckless driving cost lives!

We are shocked at the death of an elderly couple who were killed at the East Sheorapara bus stand on September 14 after being struck by a speeding car.
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Reckless driving takes 10 lives

Ten people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a stone-laden truck and a bus in the district's Sherpur upazila yesterday.
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Mother killed in front of six-year-old son

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.
24 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Opinion: arresting for traffic rules violation is a crazy idea

In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?
23 April 2016, 08:30 AM

Reckless driving continues to kill

The fatal road crash in Rangpur, caused apparently by rash driving of a coach helper, once again points to the worsening state of lawlessness prevailing in the transport sector.
21 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Reckless driving ruins 2 families

Reckless driving virtually wiped out two families yesterday as slack enforcement of traffic rules continue to give law-breaking drivers impunity, exposing thousands of road users to the constant danger.
26 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Reckless drivers continue to kill

The death of two budding young students apparently caused by reckless driving within a span of only eight hours, around Shahbagh area...
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Twin tragedies strike within eight hours

She wanted a new school dress, white in colour, as she would be admitted to Tejgaon Government Girls High School. But what her
16 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Evidence of alcohol found in Gulshan teen driver’s car

Police say they found evidence of alcohol inside the vehicle that rammed two rickshaws and injured four people in Dhaka’s Gulshan.
13 October 2015, 16:03 PM

CNG flips at Hatirjheel: 3 hurt

At least three people are injured as a speedy CNG-run auto-rickshaw flips several times after hitting road divider at Hatirjheel in Dhaka.
7 September 2015, 14:49 PM

Highway accidents: The insane ideas

Every day as holidayers returned from home, scores died in road crashes. And this prompted the government to make some insanely funny decisions.
12 August 2015, 07:47 AM

Reckless driving costs many lives

A few days ago we were returning to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar by a non AC night coach. The journey was very unpleasant.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Jannati gets bail finally

The High Court today granted bail to Jannati Hossain, a young entrepreneur detained in a murder case after her business partner Mostamsir Ashraf died in a car crash.
12 March 2015, 14:48 PM