Bangladesh’s roads have become a national tragedy, claiming thousands of lives every year amid reckless driving, unfit vehicles, corrupt licensing, footpath encroachment,transport syndicates and weak enforcement. A four-part Daily Observer investigation traces the crisis, the failures that sustain it and the reforms needed to make the country’s roads safer.
Every year of drift on Bangladesh's roads is a year of measurable national loss -
Bangladesh’s roads have become a national tragedy, claiming thousands of lives every year amid reckless driving, unfit vehicles, corrupt licensing, footpath encroachment, transport syndicates and weak enforcement. A four-part Daily Observer investigation traces the crisis, the failures that sustain it and the reforms needed to make the country’s roads safer.
Ask any Bangladeshi road-safety researcher what causes a crash and the honest answer is: almost