With utter disregard for law and norms, Dhaka University and Jagannath University buses ply on the wrong side of city streets regularly, apparently to avoid traffic.

Two people are run over by a BRTC bus on airport road in Dhaka.

Motorcycles are swarming Dhaka streets where they whiz past other vehicles, ride on sidewalks and carry out the law defying act of driving on the opposite side of the road.

At least four people are killed and three injured as a pick-up van overturns on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj.

Every day as holidayers returned from home, scores died in road crashes. And this prompted the government to make some insanely funny decisions.

Two children including a three-day-old boy are killed and five of their family members injured in a road accident in Dhaka.

The government has decided to fix the speed limit of vehicles on highways across the country at 80 kilometers per hour.

The government has banned three-wheelers on 22 national highways across the country to check road accidents and loss of lives, says minister Obaidul Quader.

Five people, including two of a family, are killed and another injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashes into a bus at Mulibari level-crossing on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge approach road in Sirajganj.

16 people are killed and around 40 injured as two passenger buses collided head-on in the west side of of Bangabandhu bridge in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj.

Three people are killed and at least 53 others injured in two road accidents in Rangpur and Munshiganj today.

Nine people are killed and eight injured in separate road accidents in Sirajganj and Manikganj.

Two police officials succumb to their injuries Sunday after a bus hit them on Dhaka-Mawa highway in South Keraniganj of Dhaka Saturday.

Four passengers of a bus are killed and 11 injured as the vehicle fell into a roadside ditch after hitting a truck stationed on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chauddagram upazila of Comilla.

At least four people killed and one other injured as a bus ram into a battery-run easy bike in Tangail Sadar upazila on Dhaka-Tangail highway.

Two persons are killed and another injured as a truck and a motorcycle collided head-on on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Manikganj.

The Daily Star finds that jaywalkers account for 40% of all reported road accident deaths in Dhaka.

Three people are killed and another was injured as a truck plunged into a roadside ditch in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

At least three people including a minor boy are killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka.

We cannot agree entirely with the view that road accidents and the resultant deaths do not elicit enough public reaction.