Around 468 persons were killed and 507 were injured in 432 road crashes across the country during the nation-wide lockdown in April, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity disclosed the information to media in a press statement on Sunday.
Six people were killed in eight railway accidents and 38 people were killed in 14 water-way accidents where nine people were injured and two went missing.
According to the statistics, the highest number of accidents occurred in 221 mishaps involving trucks and covered vans, 144 accidents occurred by motorcycles, 55 accidents by battery-run rickshaws and easy bikes, 64 by Nasimon and Karimon, 52 by CNG-run auto-rickshaws, 30 accidents occurred by private cars and 20 accidents occurred by buses.
The highest number of road accidents occurred in last month. A total of 26 people were killed and 33 injured in 26 road accidents on April 8, 2021.
The lowest number of road accidents was recorded on 14 April. Ten people were killed and six were injured in these accidents.
In the monitoring report of the Road Accident Monitoring Cell of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity disclosed the information.
Analysing the report published in the country’s newspapers, the organization published this report in a press release sent to the media outlets.
