At least 469 people were killed and 837 more injured in 443 road crashes in the country in October, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Sunday.
Of the crashes, involvement of motorcycles was the highest 46.95 per cent, and the highest 41.79 per cent people were killed in these crahses.
People were killed daily at an average 15.12 in October, which was 14.02 in September.聽
In the month, 18 people were killed and six more were injured in 21 railways accidents, while seven were killed and three more were injured in four waterways accidents.
The report was prepared based on reports published in nine national dailies, seven online news portals and different electronic media.
Among the fatal victims, 196 were motorcyclists and their pillions, 102 were pedestrians, 94 were passengers and transport workers of different three-wheeler vehicles, 31 were bus passengers, 20 were transport workers and illegal passengers of trucks, pickup vans, tractors and trolleys, 12 were passengers and drivers of cars, microbuses, jeeps and ambulances, 10 were passengers and transport workers of locally modified vehicles such as nasimon, karimon, bhatbhati, tomtom and mahindra, and four were passengers and pullers of rickshaws, rickshaw vans and bicycles.
In the month, 66 children, 67 drivers and transport wokrers, 58 students, 27 businesspeople, 21 sales representatives of medicine and differet products, 16 NGO employees, 14 political leaders and activists, and 11 appearal workers were killed in road crashes.
The RSF report found that the highest percentage, 39.05, of road crashes took place on national highways followed by 36.56 per cent on regional highways, 14.44 per cent on rural roads, 8.57 per cent on the urban roads and 1.35 per cent on other roads.
Of the crashes, the highest 38.6 per cent were caused by losing control, followed by 25.28 per cent by head-on collisions, 23.47 per cent by hitting pedestrians, 9.48 per cent by hitting other vehicles from behind and 3.16 per cent by other reasons.
The highest 26.63 per cent crashes took place in the morning, while 26.18 per cent at night, 16.93 per cent at noon, 15.57 per cent in the afternoon, 9.25 per cent in the evening and 5.41 per cent at dawn.
In the Dhaka division, the highest number of road crashes, 131, caused the highest number of deaths, 144, while the lowest number of crashes was in the Sylhet division, 22, which killed 24 people.
Twenty-one people were killed and 34 more were injured in 29 crahses in the capital.
The report blamed the movement of overspeeding for most of the crashes and demanded monitoring involving technology, motivational training for the drivers and awareness programmes for all road users to check the situation, said a press release.
