Bangladesh faces deadly road problems every single day. Drivers act reckless and roads stay poorly built across the country. Officials refuse to enforce traffic rules properly. People die on busy city streets and quiet country highways alike. Death and harm happen over and over again.
Road Safety Foundation just shared scary new numbers about recent holiday accidents. The group looked at reports from newspapers and TV stations during Eid-ul-Adha this year. They found almost 350 crashes happened over just 12 days around the holiday. These accidents killed 312 people total. That means 26 people died each day from road crashes.
Students marched for safer roads back during 2018 after their classmates got killed. Their protests pushed lawmakers to create the Road Transport Act that same year. Many people thought things would change for the better after that law passed. The previous government promised to make roads much safer for everyone. Those promises never came true and people kept dying.
Laws written on paper cannot save lives without real action. Bangladesh needs better roads that forgive driver mistakes. The country must check that all vehicles work properly before they hit the streets. Driver training programs need to become much tougher and more thorough. Police officers have to enforce traffic laws the same way every time without taking bribes or looking the other way.
Road Safety Foundation just shared scary new numbers about recent holiday accidents. The group looked at reports from newspapers and TV stations during Eid-ul-Adha this year. They found almost 350 crashes happened over just 12 days around the holiday. These accidents killed 312 people total. That means 26 people died each day from road crashes.
Students marched for safer roads back during 2018 after their classmates got killed. Their protests pushed lawmakers to create the Road Transport Act that same year. Many people thought things would change for the better after that law passed. The previous government promised to make roads much safer for everyone. Those promises never came true and people kept dying.
Laws written on paper cannot save lives without real action. Bangladesh needs better roads that forgive driver mistakes. The country must check that all vehicles work properly before they hit the streets. Driver training programs need to become much tougher and more thorough. Police officers have to enforce traffic laws the same way every time without taking bribes or looking the other way.
