At least 708 people were killed and 2,426 injured in 683 road crashes last month, Bangladesh Jatri Klyan Samity said today

The Road Transport and Highways Division has called a meeting tomorrow with the divisional commissioners and deputy inspector general of ranges to find out why the number of road crashes cannot be controlled.

The Police Headquarters yesterday instructed all its field level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearance to operate on the roads. But is it implementable?

Amid rising road crashes, the Police Headquarters has instructed all its field-level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearances to operate.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested the driver of Raida Paribahan bus that rammed a motorcycle near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka killing an engineer of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh yesterday

An engineer at CAAB died yesterday after a bus rammed his motorcycle near the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka before crashing through the boundary wall in front of the airport’s third terminal.

A car and three battery-run auto-rickshaws were crawling in a queue to pay the toll for the Gabkhan Bridge in Jhalakathi around 1:30pm yesterday.

It is suspected that the truck driver lost control over his vehicle due to a brake failure

Amid the Eid-ul-Fitr and Pahela Baishakh celebrations, there were families who had to mourn the loved ones killed in road accidents and similar incidents.

The numbers of road accidents and deaths saw a sharp rise in the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year. Experts blamed the spike on the authorities’ failure to implement specific measures and a lack of commitment to ensure road safety.

Three people, including two students, were killed and two others injured when a bus hits a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Rangpur city last night

At least 555 people were killed and 1,031 were injured in 503 road crashes across the country last month, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said today

Three labourers were killed and two others injured as a truck rammed an autorickshaw on ​​the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila early today

At least four people were killed and six others injured when a bus,  going on the wrong side of Dinajpur-Rangpur highway, ploughed into pedestrians and hit two rickshaw vans and a motorcycle in Ranirbandar area of Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, yesterday.

Locals block Dinajpur-Rangpur highway for two hours in protest

Managing travel speeds on the roads of Asia and the Pacific will save lives and avoid costly, often debilitating, injuries.

Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.

Four persons died and four others were injured as two private cars collided head-on on 300 feet road in Purbachal this morning.

A constable was killed and another was seriously injured when a local train hit a police van in Jamalpur's Sadar upazila early today

At least seven persons were killed after a bus rammed an auto-rickshaw in Hathazari area of Chattogram this morning