Enforce traffic rules to cut accidents
Urge Bangladeshi expats from South Africa
A five-member team of Bangladeshi expatriates of South Africa stressed the need for implementing traffic rules, proper infrastructure development, vehicle fitness and skilled driving to curb road accidents.
Visiting 30 countries by road, the team members being imbued with the campaign styled “We Demand Safe Road” raised the issue at a 'Meet The Press' programme at Barisal Reporters' Unity yesterday afternoon.
They stressed implementation of existing traffic rules and timely updating that by changing systems compatibles with increasing load and rush of vehicles and passengers.
The planning, infrastructures and quality of road development works mostly unsuitable for road safety, they observed.
Creating mass awareness among the people against running unfit vehicles and reckless driving is also necessary, they opined.
The team dedicated their tour to journalists Nikhil Bhadra and Dinesh Das, who fell victims to road accidents recently.
Mizanur Rahman Wahed, the team leader, Nahid Mollah and Mohammad Bellal Howlader, the team members, advocate Hiron Kumar Das Mithu and AK Azad, local leaders of Road Safety Movement, among others, addressed the prgogramme.
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