The number of road accidents saw a marked rise in the last two years due to a growing number of motorcycles, says a new survey of Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa).

Most pedestrians were jaywalking at Shahbagh. Only a handful used the zebra crossings and footbridges. Buses were picking up and dropping off passengers in the middle of streets as rickshaws waited for passengers blocking part of the busy intersection.

A man was killed after a bus hit him in the capital's Farmgate area yesterday.

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 month of August this year has seen 314 road accidents across Bangladesh which killed 357 people including 50 women and 60 children, says a survey report.

A microbus plunged into the Hatirjheel lake in Dhaka yesterday.

At least seven people are killed and several others injured as a bus hit a human haulier, locally known as laguna, in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar.

A probe committee has blamed drivers of both vehicles for the deadly crash of August 25 in Natore’s Baraigram that killed 15 people and hurt 20 others.

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.

Numb with grief, Harunur Rashid was standing outside Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday afternoon to receive the body of his 13-month-old daughter Akifa Yasmin.

At least two persons were killed and three other injured as a bus trying to overtake a vehicle collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chittagong city's Bakalia area yesterday morning.

At least 11 people were killed and more than 60 others injured in separate road accidents in eight different districts yesterday, amid dozens of measures being taken by the authorities to ensure road safety following the recent students' movement for safe roads.

The bus driver involved in the deadly Natore crash of last Saturday that left 15 persons dead during Eid journey turns himself in to police.

Authorities are curbing small vehicles from plying on the Natore-Pabna highway following Saturday’s devastating road crash; mounting sufferings on locals.

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

At least 14 people were killed in two road crashes in Feni and Narsingdi yesterday.

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

Two college students were killed in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Narsingdi yesterday amid the countrywide student agitation for road safety.

He has spent the last 30 years of his life at the wheel as a professional bus driver.