More than half of road accident victims brought to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation in the capital in four days starting from the first day of Eid holiday on June 16 were involved in motorcycle crashes.
The NITOR data showed that a total of 348 road crash victims were brought to the facility of which 180 were involved in motorcycle accidents.
The data showed that on June 16 when the holiday for Eid-ul-Azha began, 40 out of 84 road crash victims were involved in motorcycle accidents, while on June 17 the day of Eid-ul-Azha, 34 out of 65 such victims faced motorcycle accidents.聽
On June 18, total 53 out of 105 such victims were involved in motorcycle accidents, and on June 19, total 53 out of 94 victims were involved in motorcycle crashes.聽聽聽
The NITOR data also showed that from June 1 to June 19 a total of 1,332 road accident patients were brought to the hospital, 567 of whom were victims of motorcycle accidents.聽
Five-and-a-half-year-old Ritu lay on an emergency ward bed at the hospital, her forehead and right leg bandaged, crying in pain around 1:00pm on Thursday.聽
Ritu and her family had travelled from their hometown Noakhali to celebrate Eid with relatives in Bikrampur. But the joyous occasion turned sombre when a motorcycle hit her on Thursday morning while she was standing by the roadside in Bikrampur.聽聽
鈥楻itu had sneaked out of home and went to the road probably to buy something. The accident happened as she stood by the roadside to cross the street. We came to know about the incident as neighbours rushed and told us,鈥� her mother tearfully recounted while sitting beside her daughter.聽聽聽
On Wednesday, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said that at least 92 people were killed and 104 more were injured in 95 road crashes in five days, June 13鈥�17, across the country.
Quoting a report of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, he also said that most of these crashes involved motorcycles, followed by accidents involving battery-run three-wheelers.聽
In June 1鈥�19, NITOR received the highest 1,847 patients who fell from height, followed by 1,332 involved in road accidents, 790 involving trauma, 430 involving machine-related injuries, 142 victims of physical assault, and 46 patients with shoulder deformities.
In June 16鈥�19, total 142 patients visited the hospital with injuries centring cattle sacrifice activities.聽聽
