Faridpur road crash

Road Safety: Maladies every step of the way

The entire road transport sector has long been plagued by multifaceted problems, which are worsening every day amid sheer apathy from the authorities responsible for ensuring road safety.

Another day, another crash, 14 more killed

Fourteen people, including five of a family, were killed in a road crash in Faridpur yesterday, exposing a serious lack of monitoring and enforcement of road safety laws.

Old, unfit vehicles running amok

The bus involved in yesterday’s accident that left 14 dead in Faridpur would not have been on the road had the government not caved in to transport associations’ demand for allowing over 20 years old buses on roads.

Faridpur bus-pickup collision: The law violations that led to 13 deaths

Thirteen people died in Faridpur this morning in a head-on collision that would not have happened if operators of the vehicles involved had followed existing laws and rules

13 killed in bus-pickup collision in Faridpur

3 children, 7 women among the dead