Reckless driving may cause explosion

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REALISTIC steps are urgently needed against reckless driving, particularly in the capital city to save thousands of lives. Lives of people are threatened by reckless driving. The threat level increased in recent times due to gas-converted vehicles on the streets.
The drivers of almost all categories of vehicles drive recklessly in the country. Reckless driving thrives in the absence of deterrent steps. There is, apparently, none to guide or punish the unruly drivers. Reckless driving is increasing. A driver turns more violent after an accident. They don't learn from accidents they are involved with. This is applicable in case of all drivers whether they drive buses or trucks or cabs or private cars or autorickshaws.
The increase in the number of CNG-driven vehicles on the streets only heightens the worries. Explosions can occur if the gas-driven vehicles are hit as the gas cylinders are either in the backside or on the side of a vehicle. Hit from behind or on the side may cause explosion.
It is a matter of great urgency to alert the drivers against reckless driving.
Jahanara Chowdhury
Crescent Road, Dhaka