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Two killed, 6 injured in Tangail road accident
Two people were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between an auto-rickshaw and a pick-up van in Kalihati upazila of Tangail on Friday, police said.
The deceased were identified as Ramzan Ali, 55, the auto-rickshaw driver from Uttar Betdoba village, and one of its occupants -- Rina, 30, from Bir Basina village of the upazila.
The accident occurred on Friday morning in front of RS Government Pilot High School.
According to witnesses, the auto-rickshaw heading towards the Kalihati bus stand was hit at high speed by the pick-up van coming from the opposite side, leaving its driver and the female passenger dead on the spot.
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The injured were all passengers of the auto-rickshaw. "Two of them have been admitted to Tangail General Hospital in a critical condition, while others are being treated at Kalihati Upazila Health Complex," said Molla Azizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Kalihati police station.
Both the ill-fated vehicles have been seized, but the pick-up van driver managed to flee, said the OC. "The bodies will be handed over to the family members of the deceased after completion of the legal process."
Two die in Dinajpur road crash
A truck driver and his helper were killed in a head-on collision with a lorry on the Dinajpur-Gobindaganj regional highway in the district in the early hours of Friday, police said.
The deceased driver was identified as KM Saiful Islam Badsha, 49, from Singra upazila in Natore, while his assistant could not be identified immediately, said Ashraful Islam, in-charge of Fulbari police station.
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The driver of the lorry also suffered minor injuries in the accident, he said.
The accident occurred around 3am near the Rajarampur Fakirpara area of the district's Fulbari upazila when the Panchagarh-bound truck carrying bricks crashed into the Naogaon-bound potato-laden lorry coming from the opposite direction at high speed.
Truck driver Badsha and his assistant died on the spot in the impact, Ashraful said. "Both the vehicles have been seized."
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6 students killed in Oklahoma crash were in car that seats 4
Six teenage girls on a high school lunch break were killed when their small car with only four seats collided with a large truck hauling rocks, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday.
The crash occurred shortly after noon Tuesday in Tishomingo, a rural city of about 3,000 located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, the patrol said. Those killed included the 16-year-old driver, three 15-year-olds, and two 17-year-old passengers, according to the patrol.
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While what led to the crash is unknown, it highlighted concerns of teenagers carrying other young passengers.
“Just adding a single passenger under age 21 increases the risk of crashing by 44%” when the driver is a teen," said William Van Tassel with AAA’s national office.
The crash report, released Wednesday morning, said the circumstances of the wreck remained under investigation. But Highway Patrol Trooper Shelby Humphrey said Tuesday night that the girls’ car was making a right turn when it collided with the truck, KXII-TV reported.
"One of the main concerns and risks of having multiple teenagers in a car is the distractions that come with that,” Van Tassel said.
“If one of the passengers is over 35 (the risk) goes down by 62%. That implies teens can drive safely when there’s an adult in the car," Van Tassel told The Associated Press.
Only the 16-year-old driver and front-seat passenger were wearing seat belts when the 2015 Chevrolet Spark collided with the truck, according to the Highway Patrol.
“The unbelted people put everyone at risk," Van Tessel said. "In a crash, the unbuckled people fly around all over the place,” injuring others inside the vehicle.
Oklahoma is the only state where passengers who are older than 7 years old and in the back seat of a car do not have to wear a seat belt, said Leslie Gamble, the manger of public and government relations for AAA-Oklahoma.
“A 41-member coalition of traffic safety advocates has pushed for a bill to be passed by our state legislators for the past three years without success,” Gamble said
The crash occurred about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Tishomingo High School.
Students in the district of about 850 students were in class Wednesday, Tishomingo Public School Superintendent Bobby Waitman said.
“Academics are secondary, frankly, at this point to the students knowing that they belong, that they have a safe place,” Waitman said.
“You'll never fully understand, I don't think we'll ever fully understand a loss like this," Waitman added.
The girls' names weren't released because they are juveniles.
The Highway Patrol identified the driver of the truck as Valendon Burton, 51, of Burneyville, Oklahoma. The report said Burton was not injured.
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team, according to NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson.
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Waitman said funerals for the students were not yet scheduled and that the district would work with their families to potentially schedule a memorial service on campus.
The crash happened one week after nine people were killed — including six members of a New Mexico college’s golf team and their coach — died in a crash in West Texas. In that crash, the NTSB determined that a 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a truck when it blew a tire and struck the van carrying University of the Southwest students.
Two die in bus-truck collision in Rangur
Two persons were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the busy Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in the district early on Friday morning.
The accident occurred around 4.30am near a fuel refilling station on the high-speed corridor in the Shathibari area of the district's Mithapukur upazila.
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"The Rangpur-bound bus, named 'Mayer Doa Paribahan', crashed into the potato-laden truck heading towards Dhaka at high speed, leaving two dead on the spot," said Shahjahan Ali, officer-in-charge of Baradarga highway police station.
One of the deceased was the truck driver and another was a male passenger of the bus but their identities could not be known immediately, he said. "The injured have been admitted to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital," he police officer added.
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Couple killed in Nilphamari road accident
A couple was killed in a road crash at Kazirhat in Nilphamari Sadar upazila on Sunday morning.
The deceased were Swapan Roy, 30, and his wife Sumi Roy, 25, both workers of Sonic Company at Uttara Export Processing Zone.
Witnesses said they were going to Uttara EPZ on the motorcycle of another person to join the work.
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As the motorcyclist lost control while overtaking a truck the couple was crushed under its wheels.
Fortunately, Satish Chandra, the motorcyclist, survived.
Nilphamari Police OC Mahmud-Un-Nabi said that the bodies were recovered and sent to the Nilphamari Hospital morgue for autopsy.
The truck was seized, he said.
3 of a family killed in Savar road crash
Three members of a family were killed and three people injured as a private car collided with a CNG-run auto rickshaw at Dhamrai in Dhaka on Friday night.
The deceased were identified as Piara Begum, 45, wife of Nasir Uddin Khan and their two sons -- Nasib Khan, 20 and Chhoton Khan, 18.
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Chhotan Khan's cousin Hridoy and Shamimuzzaman Shamim, a UP member of Ward 4 of Bhararia Union, said the accident occurred at around 8.30 pm, leaving six people injured.
Locals rescued the seriously injured passengers of the autorickshaw and took them to Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex.
Chhoton Khan was decaled dead at the health complex while Piara Begum and her other another son Nasib Khan died while were being taken to Dhaka for better treatment.
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Dhamrai Police Station Officer-in-Charge Atiqur Rahman said, they collected CCTV footage of the of the accident and the victims’ family is preparing to file a case.
“We hope it will be possible to arrest the private car driver and seize the vehicle,” he said.
2 killed in B’baria road accident
Two people were killed and 2 others injured in a collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Monday morning.
The deceased were identified as Awal Mia, 50, of Maheshpur village in Nabinagar upazila and Fayez Mia, 45, son of Hekim Bepari of the same village.
However, the identities of the injured could not be known immediately.
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Md Shahjalal Alam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Brahmanbaria Khatihata Highway Police said the Brahmanbaria-bound truck collided with the auto- rickshaw in the morning, leaving two people dead on the spot.
The injured were rushed to a hospital, the OC added.
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The truck driver fled the scene immediately after the accident.
Five die in Chandpur road accident
Five young men returning from a wedding died after their car veered off the road and plunged into a pond in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur district in the small hours of Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Shah Poran Tushar, 22, son of Siddiqur Rahman, Shakil, 23, son of Rafiqul Islam, Rezaul Karim, 23, son of Babul Mia of Cumilla district, Nayan, 24, son of Abdul Khalek of Jashore district and Sagar Hossain, 24, son of Babul Hossain of Gazipur district.
The accident occurred around 12.45am when the five were returning to their homes in Cumilla from Chatkhil, where they had gone to attend a marriage ceremony.
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"The one at the wheel lost control of the vehicle, leading to the accident, killing all the occupants," Morshedul Alam Bhuiya, officer-in-charge of Shahrasti Model Police Station, said.
On information, a fire tender rushed to the spot and fished out the bodies as well as the ill-fated car.
Road accidents in Bangladesh
Road accidents in Bangladesh continue to claim hundreds of lives every year.
As many as 413 people were killed while 532 people sustained injuries in 379 road accidents across the country in November last alone, according to a report published in 2021.
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In another report released in February 2020, the World Bank said that Bangladesh needed to invest an estimated extra $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities.
The report attributed the high death rate on Bangladesh's roads to lack of investments in systemic, targeted, and sustained road safety programmes.
Baul singer dies in B'baria road crash
A 35-year-old Baul singer was killed and three others were injured when a speeding truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in which they were travelling on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Jamal Hossain, a resident of Dhaka's Kachukhet area. The injured have been identified as Muhammad Alamin, 37, Yeasmin Mia, 28, and auto driver Siddique Mia, 45.
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The accident occurred on the highway in the Urshiura area of the district's Sadar upazila around 8.30pm. "The truck hit the auto at a high speed, leaving all its four occupants injured," said Shahjalal Alam, officer-in-charge of Khatihata Highway Police camp.
The injured were taken to a local hospital, where Jamal was declared dead on arrival.
The baul singer was on his way to Akhaura upazila for attending a music festival when the accident occurred, the OC said.
3 killed in Cox's Bazar road accident
Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a bus and a mini-truck in Medhakachchapia area in Chakaria upazila on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in early hours of Monday.
The deceased were identified as bus driver Bazlul Haque, 40, of Kalkini in Madaripur district, his helper Alal of Dhamrai in Dhaka and truck driver Maulvi Khaled, 35, of Maheshkhali in Cox's Bazar.
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Police and locals rescued the injured people and admitted them to Malumghat Memorial Christian Hospital and Chakaria Upazila Health Complex.
Mohammad Osman Gani, officer-in-charge (OC) of Chakaria Police Station said the Chittagong-bound picnic bus collided with the salt-laden mini-truck, leaving three people dead on the spot.
Of the injured, six are in critical condition, the OC added.