Vehicles to shed extra bumpers by July 10

"Remove all additional bumpers from rear and front of vehicles plying the city by 6:00pm of July 10," DMP Commissioner Ashraful Huda said yesterday.

After the time limit, legal action will be taken against the vehicles and its drivers for non-compliance, he added.

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The DMP commissioner noted fatal accidents are taking place as a good number of vehicles ply the city streets with extra bumpers.

Clause 42 of the Vehicles Act says attaching extra bumper is a punishable act, the commissioner said.

The order followed the killing of an Orthopaedic Hospital doctor by a car driver who did not stop driving though the physician's leg got hooked in the bumper on busy Mirpur Road on July 1.