Road accident and safety

Road accidents are very common in our country, a huge number of people died in road accidents every year and the ratio of injury per accident is also very high.

Not a single day we have passed when we do not read a report of road accidents. Almost everyone was affected by such accidents, because a relative or friend is someway connected to such accidents.

On an average, per day road accidents kill 10-15 people, which make the streets and highways more vulnerable in our country.

At about 120 people were killed in road accident this month around the country.

Most of the road crashes occurred due to bus driver’s ignorance of traffic law, unskilled driving, defective roads and careless driving.

Experts said poorly trained drivers are mainly to blame for the high number of road deaths and injuries.

Many road accident victims said the drivers always go unpunished using the loopholes of the law. So thy demanded an effective law to punish the killer drivers to prevent road accidents.

Families United Against Road Accident (FUARA), an organization formed mostly by the families of the victims, demanded implementing motor vehicle laws properly, declaring the killing in road accidents as non-bailable offence, canceling fake driving licenses, removing all unfit vehicles from roads, ensuring punishment to the killer drivers, creating massive awareness, improving the skills of drivers and incorporating the road safety issue in school curriculum.

They blaming Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) officials for giving licenses to unfit vehicles and drive against such vehicles must be launched to reduce road accidents.

They also urged the people from all walks of life to put in concerted efforts to check road accidents.

Experts said awareness on preventing road accidents among drivers, vehicle owners, law enforcement agencies and pedestrians must also be raised.

A Bangladesh Roads Transport Authority (BRTA) official said everyday BRTA’s two offices in the capital alone get 400 new driving applications, but the officials can process only 250 licenses because of limited resources and testing infrastructure.

While contacted Prof. Dr. Hasib Mohammed Ahsan, Director of Accident Research Institute (ACR), said in the city most of the accident occurred for not obeying the traffic rules. On the other hand in highway most of the accident ensued because of overtaking, reckless driving and over speed.

He mentioned that in the city we have not enough footpaths for the pedestrian to walk so that they walk in the road and fell victim of road accident.

According to statistics 64% pedestrian were killed in road accident, he added.

So preventing road accident in the city, driver’s need to follow the traffic rules as well as the pedestrian need to be careful when they are walking in the road, he added.

The ACR director also said to prevent accident in the highway driver need to be more careful about their speed and while they are overtaking another car in the highway.

While asked for a driving license drivers need to face a five minute test drive to prove his/her driving ability. Is it correct?

He answered that a huge number of driver are untested in our country so we can say this is comparatively good then untested.

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