After last year’s unprecedented demonstration for safer roads, different government bodies, police, and transport leaders made a series of lofty promises.

Gaze Technology, owned by a team of young Bangladeshi students has devised a project to manage the traffic of Dhaka and make the roads safer.

If numbers are meant to impress, one must admit that the latest report of the latest committee on road safety, albeit in draft form presently, is a voluminous document deserving our praise.

Student demonstrators yesterday said they would resume their peaceful protest for safe roads on Sunday to keep pressure on the authorities to implement their promises.

Three people are killed in a road accident in Manikganj as a pick-up van collides with a truck coming from the opposite direction on Dhaka-Aricha highway.

On the occasion of the National Road Safety Day today, noted filmmaker Catherine Masud talks to Nahela Nowshin of The Daily Star about her own journey of navigating the justice system, what the recent student-led road safety movement has achieved, and the shortcomings of the recently passed Road Transport Act 2018.

The government’s high-powered committee on road safety orders all concerned authorities to take effective initiatives in implementing its measures for ensuring road safety across the country including the capital Dhaka.

Four people are killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Kushtia and Laxmipur districts.

Unsuspecting people are becoming victims of reckless bus drivers and their killing machines with sickening regularity. Only in the space of 10 days three persons fell victim to wild bus drivers who thought the streets of Dhaka were racing tracks, and consequently, Rajib and Rozina eventually succumbed to their injuries. The case of the latest victim is even more appalling. He is a car driver who was deliberately run over by the driver of a private transport company, when told to stop by the victim after the bus had hit and damaged the car.

A survey by the Passengers' Welfare Association revealed at least 87 percent of buses and minibuses ply recklessly in violation of traffic rules on the roads of Dhaka, creating chaos.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader recently said that road management is not responsible for road accidents as a result of vehicles overtaking one another; rather drivers, passengers and transport management are to blame. We would like to point out two things. First, the minister's comments leave out the role of traffic management which is crucial for road safety. And second, road accidents are a result of overall management which includes road, transport and traffic management.

More than 55,000 vehicles, including 3,740 belonging to different ministries and government agencies, have not renewed their fitness certificates for more than a decade, according to official data. One can only assume that the actual number of such vehicles is much greater, even though some on the list may no longer be running according to BRTA.

Drunk drivers in Thailand could be sent to work in morgues under a new plan to cut the country's dismal road safety record, officials say.

Two men and a woman have been killed in three separate road crashes in the capital today.

Two people including a constable of highway police killed and three others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla.

The High Court (HC) ordered the government to implement 28 guidelines by a seven-member expert committee formed under a court order...

A middle-aged man dies crushed between two buses while trying to board one of them near Jatrabari crossing in Dhaka.

Three of a family killed, four injured as a microbus plunges into a roadside ditch in Bakshiganj upazila of Jamalpur.

CNG auto-rickshaw drivers and owners continue their protest against the ban on their vehicles from plying on the highways.

A 65km long tailback ensues on the Dhaka-Tangail highway as holidaymakers make return journey after Eid.