Reckless driving claims another life in city
Saturday, 6 February 2010
FE Report
Reckless driving claimed a minor girl's life in the city Friday, two days after the tragic road accident in which a seven-year-old school student was crushed under the wheels of another passenger bus in Kakrail.
The deceased was identified as Sumi (7). Her mother and infant brother were also injured in the incident.
Tejgaon police said an unidentified passenger bus hit them from behind while they were crossing the road on foot in front of Falcon Hall, 50 yards north of the Prime Minister's office at about 1:30pm, leaving Sumi fatally wounded.
They were rushed to Al-Raji Hospital at Farmgate where doctors declared Sumi dead. Then Sumi's mother Hasina and her one-year old brother Hasan were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as their conditions deteriorated.
A Sub-Inspector of Tejgaon police station told the FE that they could not identify the vehicle that was responsible for the tragedy. "Our intelligence team is working to detect the vehicle and its staff."
Safe road activists blamed the country's existing law that was neither rigid enough nor enforced properly against such fatal accidents that accounts for 47 per cent of the unnatural deaths each year in the country.
Chairman of Nirapad Sarak Chai, a movement that promotes road safety, Elias Kanchan said the government should take immediate initiative to ensure that drivers are properly trained, the lack of which is one of the main reasons behind the deaths.
"It should monitor the training centers that certifies drivers as many of these institutions provides certificates to the unskilled drivers through corrupt means. And the existing law should be more rigid to prevent the killings.
Under the existing law, the guilty drivers will have to face maximum three years rigorous jail and Tk 1,000 penalty, which is not enough to prevent road accidents.
Reckless driving claimed a minor girl's life in the city Friday, two days after the tragic road accident in which a seven-year-old school student was crushed under the wheels of another passenger bus in Kakrail.
The deceased was identified as Sumi (7). Her mother and infant brother were also injured in the incident.
Tejgaon police said an unidentified passenger bus hit them from behind while they were crossing the road on foot in front of Falcon Hall, 50 yards north of the Prime Minister's office at about 1:30pm, leaving Sumi fatally wounded.
They were rushed to Al-Raji Hospital at Farmgate where doctors declared Sumi dead. Then Sumi's mother Hasina and her one-year old brother Hasan were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as their conditions deteriorated.
A Sub-Inspector of Tejgaon police station told the FE that they could not identify the vehicle that was responsible for the tragedy. "Our intelligence team is working to detect the vehicle and its staff."
Safe road activists blamed the country's existing law that was neither rigid enough nor enforced properly against such fatal accidents that accounts for 47 per cent of the unnatural deaths each year in the country.
Chairman of Nirapad Sarak Chai, a movement that promotes road safety, Elias Kanchan said the government should take immediate initiative to ensure that drivers are properly trained, the lack of which is one of the main reasons behind the deaths.
"It should monitor the training centers that certifies drivers as many of these institutions provides certificates to the unskilled drivers through corrupt means. And the existing law should be more rigid to prevent the killings.
Under the existing law, the guilty drivers will have to face maximum three years rigorous jail and Tk 1,000 penalty, which is not enough to prevent road accidents.