2024-03-21 19:10:38
Last February, 555 people were killed and 1031 injured in 503 road accidents. During the month, 37 people were killed and 64 injured in 38 accidents on railways, seven people were killed and four injured including one missing in five accidents on sea. Out of this 173 motorcycle accidents resulted in 210 deaths and 129 injuries.
599 people were killed and 1099 injured in a total of 546 accidents on road, rail and sea. Which is 34.39 percent of the total accidents, 37.83 percent of the dead and 12.51 percent of the injured.
In February, most road accidents were organized in Dhaka division. 135 people were killed and 317 injured in 115 road accidents. The least number of road accidents have been organized in Sylhet division. 22 people were killed and 50 injured in 21 road accidents. This information has come out in the observation report of the Accident Monitoring Cell of Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Association.
On Wednesday (March 20), the secretary general of the organization. The organization presented this report in a press release signed by Mozammel Haque Chowdhury. This report is prepared by monitoring the news of road, rail and maritime accidents published in the national, regional and online newspapers of the country.
28 law enforcement personnel, 163 drivers, 34 pedestrians, 49 transport workers, 69 students, six teachers, 93 women, 58 children, three journalists, one doctor, one lawyer, A freedom fighter and five people have been identified as leaders and activists of different political parties.
At this time, 710 vehicles involved in road accidents were identified. It shows that 24.36 percent motorcycles, 24.64 percent trucks-pickup-covered vans and lorries, 12.95 percent buses, 17.4 percent battery-powered rickshaws and easy bikes, 5.63 percent CNG-powered auto-rickshaws, 9.57 percent nachiman- Karimon-Mahindra-Tractor and Laguna, 5.77 percent cars-jeep-microbus road accidents.
Of the total accidents organized, 57.45 percent were from vehicle rollovers, 19.8 percent from head-on collisions, 18.48 percent from falling into ditches, 39.39 percent from wheelies, 1.39 percent from train-vehicle collisions, and 3.18 percent from miscellaneous causes. .