At least 86,690 people were killed and 1,53,257 injured in 62,619 road crashes across the country over the last 11 years, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said yesterday.

The health authorities seek to roll out a post-crash response plan for the first time to reduce preventable deaths and disabilities resulting from road accidents, but funding uncertainties are delaying its implementation.

The video of a crash in Cumilla last month presents the horrifying portrait of a system in collapse.

The victim was dragged several yards by the auto-rickshaw

The car rammed into a roadside railing and overturned

Victims were on their way home from the weekly market

They were returning home after receiving a relative from Dhaka airport

Six people have been killed in separate road accidents in Faridpur, Gopalganj, and Shariatpur.

Seven members of a family in a microbus and its driver were killed when a truck rammed the vehicle head-on on the Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway in Natore’s Boraigram upazila yesterday.

Police have seized the vehicle and detained the driver

Five people were killed in two separate road accidents in the capital's Uttara and Bijoy Sarani areas early yesterday.

At least seven people were killed and several others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a human haulier in Mymensingh’s Phulpur upazila last night

At least four people, including a mother and her infant daughter, were killed, and 20 others were injured in road crashes in Pabna and Mymensingh yesterday.

Police have seized the bus and a case has been filed with the police station

Sufia Begum, a 55-year-old woman from Munshiganj’s Sreenagar, suffered severe injuries to her right hand when a motorcycle struck her on the day of Eid-ul-Azha (Saturday) when she was crossing a road near her home.

The accident occurred around 9:00am near the Kakoli bus stand

For long, Billal Fakir, 40, and his family wanted a fourth child. On the day their wish was to be granted, fate betrayed them.

An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.

Victims identified

Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.