A young boy becomes the victim of an unhealthy competition of two buses in the city’s Moghbazar intersection on Thursday. The victim Rakibul was selling surgical masks to pedestrians and bus passengers to earn his bread, though at this tender age of 14 he was supposed to go to school. The development surprise does not reach him, like many others.
Rakibul was critically injured when two buses of the same company converged and crushed the hapless boy in the middle. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead. Rakibul had studied up to class 5 at their village home in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila, however, when Covid hit two years ago, he left school to come to the capital and support his family members.
On November 8, 2021, a school teacher was killed after being crushed between two buses in the capital’s Demra Staff Quarter area. On March 7 of the same year, a woman was crushed to death between two buses as the vehicles competed to make a U-turn in Dhaka’s Gulistan roundabout. On April 3, 2018, Government Titumir College student Rajib Hossain lost his right hand after it got stuck between two speeding buses while they were trying to overtake each other in the city’s Bangla Motor area.
Data shows a rising trend in road crashes in the last few years despite government agencies promising a change and initiating various steps after a major road safety movement in July-August 2018. The movement took place after a bus, competing with another, ploughed into pedestrians and killed two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on the capital’s Airport Road. A total of 3,776 people were killed in 3,204 road crashes last year, while 3,558 people were killed in 3,064 incidents in 2020.
The government has failed to protect the life of people as it is unable to establish the transport act due to strong resistance from transport owners and workers. We cannot but say the government provides licences to transport workers to kill people.
Rakibul was critically injured when two buses of the same company converged and crushed the hapless boy in the middle. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead. Rakibul had studied up to class 5 at their village home in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila, however, when Covid hit two years ago, he left school to come to the capital and support his family members.
On November 8, 2021, a school teacher was killed after being crushed between two buses in the capital’s Demra Staff Quarter area. On March 7 of the same year, a woman was crushed to death between two buses as the vehicles competed to make a U-turn in Dhaka’s Gulistan roundabout. On April 3, 2018, Government Titumir College student Rajib Hossain lost his right hand after it got stuck between two speeding buses while they were trying to overtake each other in the city’s Bangla Motor area.
Data shows a rising trend in road crashes in the last few years despite government agencies promising a change and initiating various steps after a major road safety movement in July-August 2018. The movement took place after a bus, competing with another, ploughed into pedestrians and killed two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on the capital’s Airport Road. A total of 3,776 people were killed in 3,204 road crashes last year, while 3,558 people were killed in 3,064 incidents in 2020.
The government has failed to protect the life of people as it is unable to establish the transport act due to strong resistance from transport owners and workers. We cannot but say the government provides licences to transport workers to kill people.
