Road accidents

Molla Mohammad Shaheen, Dhaka
Every day we get news of horrific road accidents from the print and electronic media. Many valuable lives are being lost in these road accidents. Actually, the highways have become the death traps in our country. Reckless driving, overtaking tendency, overloading, defective vehicles and dilapidated roads are mainly responsible for this. We all should raise our voice against this. The government should take pragmatic and effective measures to curb road accidents. Traffic police as well as highway police can play a pivotal role here. People should not travel on the roof of the vehicles and they should not encourage the drivers to overtake other vehicles on the highway.