Road Accidents Worldwide, the number of people
killed in road traffic accidents is estimated to be 1.3 million, with another 50 million injured each year. More than 85 percent of these casualties occur in low and middle income countries. Road traffic accidents have now become a great social concern in Bangladesh and the situation is deteriorating.
According to the database of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity 7,397 people were killed in 4,979 road accident with 16,193 casualties only in 2017. The organisation claims that the financial loss due to road accidents will amount to 1.5 to 2.0 percent of our GDP.
According to the latest WHO data published in 2017 on Road traffic accidents, deaths in Bangladesh reached 20,660 or 2.62% of total deaths. Deaths and damages of properties caused by road accident have become a daily and deadly phenomenon in Bangladesh, which has one of the worst crash rates in the world.
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