At least 578 people were killed and 1,327 more injured in 596 road crashes in the country in February, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday.
Most of the deaths occurred in accidents involving motorcycles, the report also said, mentioning that 39.27 per cent or 224 people died in 40.43 per cent or 241 motorcycle related accidents.
In January this year daily 19.61 people were killed on roads on an average and in February daily 20.64 were killed on an average.
Train was involved in the next highest number of deaths鈥�13 people鈥攚ith six more injured in 14 accidents.
Four people were killed and two more were injured in two waterways accidents.
The report was prepared based on reports published in nine national dailies, seven online news portals, different electronic media and own sources.
Of those killed, 114 were pedestrians, 92 were passengers of three-wheelers, 82 were drivers and their assistants of different motor vehicles, 56 were illegal passengers of trucks, pickup vans, tractors and trolleys, 33 were bus passengers, 22 were passengers and drivers of cars, microbuses, jeeps and ambulances, 20 were passengers and transport workers of locally modified vehicles such as nasimon, karimon, bhatbhati, tomtom and mahindra, and 14 were passengers and pullers of rrickshaws, rickshaw vans and bicycles.
Of those killed in February, 87 were children, 67 were students, 29 were businesspeople, 17 construction and apparel workers, 14 employees of non-governmental organisations, 14 political leaders and activists, 11 teachers and 11 were sales representatives of medicine and differet products.
According to the report, the highest percentage, 44.96 per cent of road accidents took place on regional highways followed by 35.06 per cent on national highways, 12.24 per cent on rural roads and 7.71 per cent on the urban roads
Of the accidents, the highest 42.44 per cent were caused as the drivers lost control of the vehicles, followed by 23.82 per cent by head-on collisions, 20.3 per cent in which vehicles hit pedestrians, 10.4 per cent when vehicles were hit by other vehicles from behind and 3.02 per cent by other reasons.
The highest 28.85 per cent crashes took place in the morning, while 19.96 per cent in the afternoon, 19.63 per cent at about noon, 19.12 per cent at night, 8.22 per cent in the evening and 4.19 per cent at dawn.
In Dhaka division, the highest number of road accidents, 205, caused the highest number of deaths, 198, while the lowest number of accidents, 34, occurred in the Barishal division, killing 34 people.
In the capital 27 people were killed and 36 more were injured in 34 crahses.
The report observed that most of the accidents occurred in February due to speeding which led to lose control over the vehicles.
The forundation has urged the government to introduce motivational training for drivers and monitoring on them.聽
