Child deaths on the road

As we mourn the deaths of seven school children, who died as the bus carrying them skidded off a road in to a canal at Jessore, we feel outraged. Our children, while travelling on the roads never seemed as vulnerable as now. In a way, this accident was waiting to happen. In the case of this accident some points need to be noted. First, the students travelled a good distance away from their school; and second, the return journey could have been made earlier during the daylight hours.
On March 16, 2013, seven eight-year old children were killed and four were injured when a truck crashed into their school van in Comilla. In another mishap truck-laden 60 school children met with an accident at Mirsarai in Chittagong, killing 44 including an adult. Children are dying by droves through road mishaps in recent times. It seems the special precautions that ought to be taken when children are travelling are going by default.
Risk factors need to be assessed while guidelines given to halt the epidemic of deaths on the road. Clearly there are numerous other measures that need to be implemented in order to reduce traffic fatalities. Moreover, conducting of highway patrolling should be adopted to keep our roads and highways under a scanner for minimizing all types of road accidents.