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Schoolboy killed in Dhaka road crash
A schoolboy was killed as an unidentified vehicle hit him in the city’s Tejgaon area on Sunday morning.
The deceased was identified as Ali Hossain, 16, a resident of the area and a class X student of Government Science College.
The speeding vehicle hit Hossain in front of Bangladesh Government (BG) Press in Tejgaon industrial area around 7:30 am when he was going for his coaching classes, leaving him seriously injured, said Hossain’s father Azmir Matbor.
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Locals rushed him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead, said DMCH police outpost in-charge inspector Md Bacchu Mia.
The body has been kept in the hospital morgue, he said.
Speeding truck crushes cop to death in Khulna
A police officer on highway patrolling duty died after being hit by a speeding truck on the BKSP bypass in Khulna city in the small hours of Thursday, police said.
The deceased was identified as Abdul Haque, 55, a resident of the city. He was posted at Khanjahan Ali police station of Khulna city.
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The accident occurred around 12am when the truck hit sub-inspector Abdul on the high-speed corridor while he was on patrolling duty in the area, said Md Kamal Hossain Khan, officer-in-charge of Khanjahan Ali police station.
Later, he was rushed to Khulna Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 1am, he added.
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The body has been kept in the hospital morgue, said the OC.
9 dead, 50 injured as 2 buses collide in Rangpur
Nine people were dead and around 50 injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur early today (September 5, 2022), said police.
The identities of the deceased couldn’t be ascertained immediately.
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The accident occurred around 12:30 am when the Dhaka-bound bus of ‘Islam Paribahan’ collided with a bus of ‘Joyana Paribahan’ coming from the opposite direction during heavy rain on the highway, near Kharubhaj Bridge in Ikorchali Hajipara area, said Mahbub Morshed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Taraganj highway police.
The accident left five dead on spot and more than 50 injured, he added.
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Fire Service men rescued the injured and rushed them to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital where four more people succumbed to their injuries, said the hospital’s emergency department physician Md Farhaduzzaman.
Besides, the condition of two injured is also critical, he added.
519 dead in 458 accidents in August, over 27% accidents in Dhaka division
As many as 519 people, including 69 children, were dead and 961 were injured in road accidents in August, said a report today (September 3, 2022).
Besides, 172 lives were lost in 183 motorcycle accidents, which is 33.14% of the total deaths, the Road Safety Foundation said in its latest report, released today.
Also, 109 pedestrians and 94 drivers and their assistants were killed during this period.
Accidents on waterways claimed at least eight lives while six people went missing in 11 river accidents and 24 were killed and nine injured in train accidents across Bangladesh last month.
Road Safety Foundation based its findings on the reports of nine national dailies, seven online news portals and electronic media.
Of the total accidents, 252 accidents occurred on the national highways, 199 on regional roads, 109 on rural roads, 64 on city roads and eight in other places, said the report.
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According to the report, 27.72% accidents occurred in Dhaka division, 15.28 % in Rajshahi, 21.61% in Chattogram, 10.08% in Khulna, 8.80% in Barishal, 4.14 % in Sylhet, 8.95% in Rangpur and 7.42% in Mymensingh divisions.
The highest number of accidents was recorded in Dhaka division where 242 people were killed in 127 accidents. Twenty-one people were killed in Sylhet division, the lowest compared to other divisions, said the report.
The RSF pointed out several major reasons behind the rise in the number of road accidents.
The reasons include faulty vehicles; reckless driving; desperate mentality, incompetence and illness of drivers; unsettled wages and working hours; prevalence of low-speed traffic on highways; reckless motorcycling by the youth; the tendency of flouting traffic rules, poor management of traffic; lack of efficiency of the BRTA; and extortion in the sector.
Student killed in city road crash
A 22-year-old female student of Titumir College was killed when a bus hit a motorbike over Jatrabari Hanif Flyover in the capital on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sadia Afrin Urmi, a 3rd year student of the Marketing Department of the college and daughter of Rashed Mia of Mohonpur upazila in Netrakona district. The accident occurred in the afternoon when the bus hit a motorbike carrying Sadia and one of her relatives, leaving Sadia injured.
Read:Cop killed in Bogura road crash Later, she was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctors pronounced her dead around 4:20 pm, said inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. Irene Sultana, elder sister of Sadia said she along with her husband, brother-in-law Nazmul and Sadia went out for a joy riding by two motorbikes to go to 300-feet of the capital after having lunch at their Dania residence. When they got on the Hanif Flyover a bus hit the motorbike carrying Sadia and Nazmul, she said. Nazmul was slightly injured in the accident.
Cop killed in Bogura road crash
A sub-inspector (SI) was killed when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw he was in on Bogura-Naogaon regional highway in Sadar upazila of Bogura, said police on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Bikash Chandra Sarker, 38, of Naogaon. He was posted in 4th Armed Police Battalion (APBn) in Cox's Bazar.
The accident occurred on Sunday night, when a speeding truck hit the auto rickshaw on the highway while SI Bikash was returning from Chapainawabganj to his residence in Bogura, leaving the occupants of the auto rickshaw seriously injured, said Selim Reza, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bogura Sadar police station.
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Later, locals rushed the injured to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital where the doctor declared Bikash dead, he added.
Police couldn’t seize the killer truck as it fled immediately after the accident, said the OC.
The body will be handed over to the deceased’s family after completing legal procedures, he added.
Traffic police killed in city road crash
A traffic police constable was killed after a lorry ran over him in the city's Uttara area early Sunday, said police.
The deceased was identified as Kazi Masud, 38, of Bagerhat. He was posted at Traffic Uttara East Zone of Uttara Division.
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The accident occurred around 4am when the speeding lorry hit Masud on the Dhaka-Mymensingh road in Abdullahpur during his night duty, leaving him dead on the spot, said Md Yasin Gazi, inspector (Investigation) of Uttara West police station.
The body was sent to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital morgue for an autopsy, he added.
Schoolgirl killed in city road crash
A seven-year-old schoolgirl was killed and another injured when an auto-rickshaw knocked them down at Kadamtoli in the city on Wednesday, police said.
The deceased was identified as Maria Akter, a student of Ashraf Ali Mastar School and daughter of Md Zulfiker of Juraine.
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Mahbubul Haque, sub-inspector of Kadamtoli Police Station, said the auto-rickshaw hit Maria and Faiza, 7, a student of Ayesha Siddiqua Mohila Madrasha, leaving them injured.
Later, they were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared Maria dead, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the hospital’s police camp.
Soon after the accident, agitated local people set fire to the auto-rickshaw, halting traffic movement in the area for half an hour.
Police arrested the auto-rickshaw driver.
3 killed in Barishal road crash
Three people were killed and several injured as a bus hit a trolley on Dhaka-Kuakata highway in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal on Monday, said police.
The deceased were identified as trolley driver Zohirul Talukdar, 25, his helpers-Rakib, 23, and Bayezid, 25.
The accident occurred around 10:30 am when the Barishal-bound bus of ‘Humayra Paribhahan’ crashed into the trolley on the highway and plunged into a roadside ditch, said Abul Kashem, leader of Bakerganj Fire Station.
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The accident left the trolley driver dead on spot as the vehicle overturned after being hit by the bus, he added.
The two injured were rushed to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared the duo dead, said Alaudding Milon, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bakerganj police station.
Several passengers of the bus were injured and are undergoing treatment at a local hospital, he added.
Police seized the vehicles but the bus driver managed to flee the scene, the OC added.
Turkey: Crashes at emergency sites kill at least 35 people
Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people the previous day. In both cases, first responders tending to earlier collisions were among the dead.
Saturday's tragedies happened just 250 kilometers (155 miles) apart in southern Turkey. The first happened on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip when a passenger bus collided with emergency teams that had responded to a crash in Mardin Province, west of Derik.
Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among the 15 people killed, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Eight of the victims were from the bus, he said.
The Ilhas News Agency said two of its journalists were killed after pulling over to offer help to people involved in the initial accident, in which a car came off the highway and slid down an embankment.
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Television footage showed an ambulance with severe rear damage and the bus turned on its side along the highway. Gaziantep Gov. Davut Gul said 22 people were injured in the secondary crash.
The other incident happened late Saturday afternoon in Derik after the brakes of an articulated truck failed, causing it to crash into two other vehicles near a gas station.
As first responders worked at the scene and crowds gathered to watch, another truck lost control and ploughed into them.
Speaking from the site, Soylu said 20 people were killed and 26 injured. A police officer was among the victims, and two drivers were detained as an investigation was launched, he said.
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Turkey has a poor record of road safety. Some 5,362 people died in traffic incidents last year, according to the government.