road accident
RMG workers block Banani road over colleague’s death in road crash
Protesters blocked the expressway near Chairmanbari for four hours, movement resumed around 11:45am
10 March 2025
Transport reforms a pressing need
Four-year-old Ibrahim Islam was walking to his school in Kushtia town with his grandmother around 8:00am on Sunday. Perhaps his mind was buzzing with excitement, thinking about the games he would play with his friends.
17 February 2025
6 killed in Feni road crash
All the six deceased were passengers on the pick-up
17 February 2025
15 injured in four-vehicle pileup on Dhaka-Mawa expressway amid dense fog
The traffic on the expressway has now returned to normal
17 February 2025
One killed in multi-vehicle crash on Dhaka-Mawa highway
The chain of crashes began when a lorry struck a private car from behind on the Mawa-bound lane
22 December 2024
Five killed as truck crushes autorickshaw
Five people, including three of a family, were killed and two others injured in a road traffic accident at Pekua upazila in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.
19 December 2024
Five killed in three-way collision in Kishoreganj
The accident took place on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Jagannathpur area around 10:00am
16 December 2024
4 killed as bus, pickup collide
Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup truck in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila early yesterday.
19 November 2024
Banker killed as rickshaw crushed in bus-truck collision
A man was killed and another injured when a battery-run rickshaw was crushed following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Dhaka's Paltan area early yesterday.
18 November 2024
BU student’s death in road crash: Bus driver arrested
The students of the university blocked Barishal-Kuakata-Barguna-Bhola regional routes protesting the accident
2 November 2024
Six die as truck, three-wheeler collide
Six people were killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on Itakhola-Monohardi road in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila yesterday afternoon.
26 October 2024
Eid journey: Road crashes kill 262 people in 13 days
At least 262 people were killed and 543 were injured in 251 road crashes in the 13 days centring the Eid-ul-Azha holiday, Road Safety Foundation said today
24 June 2024
708 killed in 683 road accidents in April: report
At least 708 people were killed and 2,426 injured in 683 road crashes last month, Bangladesh Jatri Klyan Samity said today
22 May 2024
Why can’t road crashes be curbed?
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.
6 May 2024
Barring unfit vehicles an unimplementable order
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?
30 April 2024
Don’t allow unfit vehicles on roads
Amid rising road crashes, the Police Headquarters has instructed all its field-level units not to allow any vehicles without fitness clearances to operate.
29 April 2024
Road crash near HSIA: Bus driver arrested
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
20 April 2024
CAAB engineer killed as bus rams his bike
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.
19 April 2024
14 die as truck ploughs into five vehicles
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.
17 April 2024
14 killed as truck ploughs through multiple vehicles in Jhalakathi
It is suspected that the truck driver lost control over his vehicle due to a brake failure
17 April 2024