At least 604 people were killed and 1,231 more injured in 587 road crashes in the country in March, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday.
Most of the deaths occurred in accidents involving motorcycles, the report also said, mentioning that 38.57 per cent or 233 people died in 41.22 per cent or 242 motorcycle related accidents.
Trains were involved in the next highest number of deaths鈥�19 people鈥攚ith four more injured in 16 railway accidents.
Nine people were killed and 14 more were injured in six 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, 233 were motorcyclists and their pillion riders, 119 were passengers of three-wheelers, 109 were pedestrians, 98 were drivers and their assistants of different motor vehicles, 56 were illegal passengers of trucks, pickup vans, tractors and trolleys, 32 were bus passengers, 27 were passengers of locally modified vehicles such as nasimon, karimon, bhatbhati, tomtom and mahindra, 17 were passengers and drivers of cars, microbuses, jeeps and ambulances, and 11 were passengers of rickshaws and rickshaw vans and bikers.
In cases of identifications of the fatal victims, 72 were students, 31 were businesspeople, 21 were sales representatives of medicine and different products, 20 different workers including apparel workers, 17 political leaders and activists, 14 employees of non-governmental organisations, 12 teachers and and seven imams and muezzins.
Ninety-seven fatal victims were children in March.
Of the accidents, the highest 258 were caused as the drivers lost control of the vehicles, followed by 153 by head-on collisions, 113 in which vehicles hit pedestrians, 47 when vehicles were hit by other vehicles from behind and 16 by other reasons.
According to the report, the highest, 256 road accidents took place on regional highways followed by 228 on national highways, 72 on rural roads and 31 on the urban roads.
The highest 26.23 per cent crashes took place in the morning, while 23.33 per cent in the afternoon, 19.76 per cent at about noon, 20.61 per cent at night, 6.13 per cent in the evening and 3.91 per cent at dawn.
In Dhaka division, the highest number of road accidents, 182, caused the highest number of deaths, 184, while the lowest number of accidents, 24, occurred in the Sylhet division, killing 30 people.
In the capital 14 people were killed and 53 more were injured in 21 crashes.
The report observed that most of the road mishaps were caused due to speeding and negligence on the part of road users.
The drivers need motivational training and increased professional facilities while the monitoring mechanism for them should be strengthened to reduce the deaths on roads, it added.聽