24/7 Desk: Road accidents and fatalities have increased in this year’s Eid trip. Last year, 285 people lost their lives in 240 accidents during Eid-ul-Fitr.
This time 367 people were killed in 358 road accidents. 63 women and 74 children among the dead. According to this, compared to last year, accidents have increased by 39.20 percent and fatalities have increased by 20.19 percent.
Last year, 20.35 people were killed in an average of 17.14 accidents per day during Eid Yatra. This year, 24.46 people were killed in an average of 23.86 accidents per day during Eid Yatra.
Besides, five families were completely wiped out in a road accident during Eid celebrations. Besides, 74 students of schools, madrassas, colleges and universities were killed
In the 15 days before and after this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr (April 4 to April 18), more than 1,500 people were injured in these road accidents across the country.
This year, 156 people died in 183 motorcycle accidents, which is 42.50 percent of the total number of victims. Motorcycle accident rate is 51.11 percent. 68 pedestrians were killed in the accident, which is 18.52 percent of the total fatalities. 41 people, i.e. 11.17 percent, were killed by vehicle drivers and assistants.
Chairman of Road Safety Foundation Professor Dr AI Mahbub Uddin Ahmed gave this information in a report published in a press conference organized at the organization’s office in Dhanmondi in the capital on Wednesday (April 24) afternoon.
Road Safety Foundation prepared the report based on 9 national dailies, 7 online news portals, electronic media and own data.
According to the report, 7 people were killed and 8 people were injured in three boat accidents during the Eid trip. 19 killed and 17 injured in 14 railway accidents
According to the statistics of vehicle-based fatalities, motorcyclists and riders are 156 (42.50 percent), bus passengers are 18 (4.90 percent), truck-pickup-covered van-tractor riders are 26 (7.08 percent), Private Car-Microbus-Pajero Jeep Passengers 28 (7.62 percent), Three-Wheeler Passengers (Easybike-CNG-Autorickshaw-Autovan) 58 (15.80 percent), Locally Made Vehicle Passengers (Nasiman-Mahindra) 9 (2.45 percent) and bicycle-pedal rickshaw riders 4 (1.08 percent) were killed.
According to the Road Safety Foundation’s monitoring and analysis, 129 (36.03 percent) of the accidents occurred on national highways, 143 (39.94 percent) on regional roads, 48 (13.40 percent) on rural roads and 38 (10.61 percent) on city roads. has been
Of the accidents, 93 (25.97 percent) were head-on collisions, 138 (38.54 percent) lost control, 72 (20.11 percent), hit or pushed pedestrians, 41 (11.45 percent) rear-end vehicles, and 14 (3.3 percent) 91 percent) occurred due to various other reasons.
Among the vehicles involved in the accident, trucks, covered vans, pickups, tractors, trolleys, lorries, ready-mix vehicles 18.56 percent, microbus-private cars-ambulance-pajero jeeps 6.24 percent, passenger buses 12.48 percent, motorcycles 32.57 percent, three -Wheelers (Easybike-CNG-Autorickshaw-Autovan-Mishuk-Laguna) 20.39 percent, locally made vehicles (Nasimon-Bhatavti-TomTom-Mahindra-PowerTiller) 5.32 percent, Bicycle-Rickshaw 2.58 percent and unidentified vehicles 1 Decimal 82 percent.
The number of vehicles involved in the accident is 657. Among them, Bus 82, Truck 59, Covered Van 11, Pickup 28, Trolley 10, Lorry 7, Tractor 6, Readymix Car 1, Microbus 13, Private Car 24, Ambulance 3, Pajero Jeep 1, Motorcycle 214, Three-Wheeler 134 (Easybike-CNG -Autorickshaw-Autovan-Mishuk-Laguna), locally made vehicles 35 (Nasimon-Bhavati-Tomtom-Mahindra-PowerTiller), Bicycle-Rickshaw 17 and unidentified vehicles 12.
Time analysis shows that 3.63 percent of the accidents occurred in the morning, 22.90 percent in the morning, 17.87 percent in the afternoon, 19 percent in the afternoon, 10.89 percent in the evening and 25.69 percent in the night.
Division wise statistics of total accidents say that 30.79 percent of fatalities occurred in 29.05 percent accidents in Dhaka Division, 11.71 percent in 13.40 percent accidents in Rajshahi Division, 12.80 percent in 14.52 percent accidents in Chittagong Division, 10.33 percent in Khulna Division. 9 percent in accidents, 10.05 percent in Barisal division, 12.26 percent in accidents, 6.42 percent in Sylhet division, 6 percent in accidents, 7.35 percent in 6.70 accidents in Rangpur division, and 9.49 percent in Mymensingh division.
According to the report, 13 people were killed and 52 injured in 29 road accidents in the capital Dhaka. Besides, most accidents and fatalities occurred in Dhaka division. 113 people died in 104 accidents. 22 people died in the least 23 accidents in Sylhet division. Besides, 28 people were killed in 32 accidents in Dhaka district as a single district. The least accidents occurred in Chandpur, Satkhira, Bagerhat and Lalmonirhat districts. Few minor accidents occurred in these 4 districts but no loss of life was reported.
According to the Road Safety Foundation’s report on Eid travel and accident review, this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr, about 12 million people traveled home from the capital and about 40 million people traveled within the country. There was enough holiday before and after Eid, the condition of various roads in the country was good, there was no rain and due to some initiative of the government, there was not much traffic jam during the Eid journey, the journey was relatively comfortable.
Additional fares have been levied on roads and waterways. The incident of 5 passengers killed and some injured when the rope of the launched boat broke at Sadarghat during Eid Yatra proves the anarchy at Sadarghat.
According to the report, the main causes of road accidents are defective vehicles, reckless speed, inefficiency and physical and mental illness of drivers, non-fixed pay and working hours, low speed vehicles on highways, reckless riding of motorcycles by youth, ignorance of traffic laws among the public and Incidents like non-compliance, poor traffic management, lack of capacity of BRTA and extortion in the public transport sector.
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