Editorial
Orphaned by highway accident
The speed demon better weep
We are deeply shocked at the loss of yet several valuable lives in a road accident which took place the other day on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the early hours in which two senior executives of Petrobangla and their wives died instantly. The drivers and the inmates of the truck which rammed into the microbus carrying the ill-fated officials also died.This accident is twice more tragic since two seriously wounded minor children of the officials who survived the horrific accident are currently lying traumatised in a specialised hospital of the city where they are recovering from the injuries they had sustained. Lying in the hospital beds these unfortunate young children are still looking for their parents with sad vacant eyes among the visitors who daily throng the hospital. Given regular support in the coming years, one still wonders as to what chances do these children have in growing up and leading a normal life of which joys and happiness are also an integral part? We will all die someday, but deaths in the way their parents died are tragic in more ways than one. It not only leaves a traumatic effect on the lives of the rest of the family but also leaves behind a memory that is hard to reconcile with. Verily, it also becomes a tragedy, the burden of which is also carried by those who survived, through the rest of their lives. It is high time the administration took serious steps in raising the level of highway safety to a point where commuters do not willy-nilly step into the waiting jaws of death.
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