Locals block Dinajpur-Rangpur highway for two hours in protest

Managing travel speeds on the roads of Asia and the Pacific will save lives and avoid costly, often debilitating, injuries.

Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.

Four persons died and four others were injured as two private cars collided head-on on 300 feet road in Purbachal this morning.

A constable was killed and another was seriously injured when a local train hit a police van in Jamalpur's Sadar upazila early today

At least seven persons were killed after a bus rammed an auto-rickshaw in Hathazari area of Chattogram this morning

Three people were killed and 12 injured when a bus rammed a into a stationary truck on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj early today

Govt attitude must change for such tragedies to end

Earlier today, “Bachelor Point” director Kajal Arefin Ome and actor Ziaul Hoque Polash were involved in a massive car accident. The news was confirmed to The Daily Star by Ome himself.

The actress was the passenger on a bike, which swerved to avoid a cyclist that suddenly came in front of them, forcing the bike’s driver to brake suddenly.

Road crash data from two government agencies does not match and this could lead to problems in making informed decisions on road safety

Five hundred and sixty-four people were killed and 1,097 injured in 486 road accidents throughout the country in March this year, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation.

Our policymakers’ apathy is the real problem

At least 24 people were injured in the incident and are undergoing treatment at various hospitals.

The deceased was identified as Omar Faruk, 22, a first-year BBA student at Bangladesh Islami University

The deceased were identified as Shahriar Khan, Angela Barai and Aryan Dipta while Kumar Nibir, son of singer Kumar Biswajit, was injured in the same incident. All four of them are students of Humber College

Yesterday marked the 66th birth anniversary of renowned filmmaker Tareque Masud, who was tragically killed in a road accident on August 13, 2011.

The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) approved the National Road Safety Strategic Action Plan (2021-24) to reduce road crashes by 25 percent within 2024 and by 50 percent within 2030.

A woman was crushed to death between two buses in Dhaka’s Gulistan area today.

A seven-year-old boy was killed after a train ran over him in Dhaka’s Moghbazar Wireless area this afternoon (August 8, 2022).