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.

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.

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.

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

3 children, 7 women among the dead