Professor Hadiuzzaman on Dhaka Traffic

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Road safety has remained elusive for five years since student protests erupted after the deaths of two college students on July 29, 2018 amid anarchy in the country’s road transport sector.
According to the police, 22,052 people were killed and 20,642 were injured in five years between 2018 and 2022. The non-government Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh said 42,645 people were killed and 64,036 injured during the same period.
‘Statistics of fatal road crashes prove that road safety did not improve,’ said professor Md Hadiuzzaman , a Professor at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
He said that in recent years, people got new roads and highways with service lanes and four lanes, but unskilled drivers were still driving and unfit vehicles were running on the roads.

Hadiuzzaman added that political influence in the road transport sector was largely responsible for the high number of accidents.

‘There are always some beneficiaries in committees formed to ensure road safety,’ he said.

‘There is a nexus between politicians and vested groups. If this nexus can be broken, road safety can be established,’ he added.

Thousands of students took to the streets after their two fellow students were killed when a reckless driver drove a Jabal-e-Noor company bus off the road and ploughed through a crowd in front of Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka while competing with another bus of the same company.

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