People’s Eid journey home was unusually smooth with less hassle than before but crashes claimed at least 40 lives during the holidays.

Three people were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh this morning.

A man was killed in a road accident this morning after a truck hit his motorbike from the opposite direction on the Patuakhali-Kuakata road at Eusufpur area.

Three men riding a motorcycle died early today at Duaria in Lalpur upazila of Natore.

Four Bangladeshi expatriates died and another one was critically injured after a bus carrying 52 Bangladeshis plunged into a roadside establishment in Mauritius today.

A top official of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) has died in a road accident in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

Five people were killed and 25 others injured in a collision between a bus and truck on the Dhaka-Khulna highway this afternoon.

A teacher’s left hand has been severed and at least 10 students of Dhaka’s Willes Little Flower School and College have been injured when a bus on a study tour collided with a parked truck in Gopalganj.

Two people are killed in a road accident involving a motorcycle and a battery-run three-wheeler at Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia.

A man dies after a bus ran him over at Dhaka’s Sayedabad area in the capital.

At least 30 passengers of a picnic bus are injured after the vehicle fell into a ditch on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Ramu upazila.

"Going [to] BD after 24 years", read the Facebook status of Bangladeshi expatriate living in the US Ruhul Amin. However, before he could reach his home in Sylhet's Beanibazar, he died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night. The accident also injured four more members of the family.

A Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) member and his wife are killed in a road accident on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.

Two people are killed in separate road accidents in Rampura and Jatrabari areas of Dhaka.

Eleven people, including four students, were killed in road crashes in the last two days.

At least 20 people were killed and 82 others injured in separate road accidents in eight districts yesterday. Of the 20 dead, seven were killed in Feni, four in Faridpur, three in Kishoreganj, two in Sirajganj, and one each in Gopalganj, Mymensingh, Barishal and Tangail.

At least 10 people are killed and 24 others are injured in separate road accidents in Bogura, Natore, Sirajganj and Munshiganj districts since the day before Eid.

Three persons are killed and eight others are injured in a road accident involving a pick-up van and a human haulier in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

A traffic sergeant who was hit by a covered van in Barishal yesterday has succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

A total 25,526 people got killed while 19,763 suffered injuries in road accidents over the past decade, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.