BRTA, Bangladesh Railway issue instructions to avoid accidents
At least eight people were killed in six road accidents on Friday in four districts. Six of the victims died in accidents due to poor visibility in dense fog in the morning.
In a notification, meanwhile, issued on the day the railway authorities instructed precautionary measures to avoid accidents on its tracks due to dense fog, which is, according to weather forecasts, likely to occur in the morning hours for the next three days.
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, on its official Facebook page, also gave precautionary guidelines to motorised vehicles and their owners for driving safely in dense fog.
The accidents happened in Munshiganj, Dhaka, Chattogram and Gaibandha districts.
In Munshiganj, 抖阴精品 correspondent in the district reported that four people were killed and 12 others injured in two separate road accidents on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Sreenagar upazila due to dense fog in the early hours of Friday.
The deceased are Mohammad Jibon, 24, Mohammad Raihan, 36, Rakib, 25, and Sabuj, 35.
According to the Highway Police, two people were killed after a truck hit a Dhaka-bound bus of Purbasha Paribahan at the Hasara point of the expressway around 5:00am.
The other two were killed after a minibus of Abdullah Paribahan rammed into a covered van on the Mawa-bound lane in the Nimtala portion of the expressway around 12:30am.
The bodies were kept at Sreenagar Upazila Health Complex, said Abdul Kader Zilani, officer-in-charge of Hasara highway police.
The Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj saw another fatal accident on December 27 when six people, three of them children, were killed and four others injured when a speeding bus rammed into three vehicles waiting in a queue at the Dhaleswari toll plaza.
In the capital, two unidentified women were killed in separate road accidents in Bangla Motor and Hazaribagh areas.
One woman was killed after she was hit by an unidentified vehicle in front of Concord Tower in Bangla Motor at about 2:00pm leaving her seriously injured, said Mohammad Rezaul, sub-inspector of Hatirjheel police.
She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries, he added.
Another woman died after she was hit by a motorcycle on Bachila Bridge in Hazaribagh about 4:00am in an accident occurred in dense fog, said Sohrab Hossai, assistant sub-inspector of the Hazarbagh police.
In Chattogram, 抖阴精品 staff correspondent in the district reported that one person was killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a private car and a truck in dense fog on Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway in Patiya upazila early Friday.
Deceased Mohammad Habib, 30, was the driver of the private car.
Patiya Highway police sub-inspector Mohammad Rashid said that the accident took place around 4:00am at Patiya Municipal Sadar bypass area.
The body was kept at the Patiya Health Complex morgue, he said, adding that the truck driver fled the scene.聽
In Gaibandha, a khatib of a mosque was killed after he lost control over his motorcycle and hit a roadside electric pole in Chowmatha area of the Bogura-Rangpur highway under Gobindaganj upazila on Friday morning, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
The victim is Hafez Jahid Hasan, a resident of Kalugari village under Shibganj upazila in Bogura district, said Mozaffar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj Highway Police.
The Ministry of Railways and Bangladesh Railways advised its personnel involved in the operation of trains to take proper precautions due to reduced visibility in dense fog.
The authorities also advised pedestrians to remain cautious at unprotected railway crossings and avoid unnecessary movement on railway lines.
In the precautionary guidelines, the BRTA urged motorised vehicle owners to drive on roads at a safe distance with control suitable for stopping within visibility in fog and drive with 鈥榣ow-beam or dipper鈥� headlights in foggy conditions.
Horn should be used if necessary to avoid danger in places beyond eyesight before turning, the guidelines said.
