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Another school student run over by truck

Road accident deaths already over 27 this month; observers of National Road Safety Day lament ban on gatherings in capital

Staff Correspondent
Just a day after the death of a female college student who was run over by a bus plying in the wrong direction in the capital's Mugda, a 15-year-old schoolboy was killed as a truck ran him over in Gazipur yesterday.
Rasel Rana alias Apan, son of Abul Hossain of Konabari and a class XI student of Konabari MA Kuddus High School, was returning home from school on a bicycle when the incident occurred before Palli Bidyut Samity office around 12:15pm.
Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital declared him dead while his friend Suman, who was pedaling, is undergoing treatment there.
The female student, Marjana Jahan Munmun, 17, of Central Women's College in Tikatuli, is the third such female victim in the capital of the last 30 days.
Of the two others, Sanjida Begum, 35, died after being run over by a bus before her 12-year-old daughter in Motijheel on October 12.
The other, Roksana Begum, 37, was hit by a heavy vehicle in Kamalapur while returning home after picking up her five-year-old daughter from school on September 24.
Yesterday, We Demand Safe Road organised a press conference in Dhaka Reporters Unity marking "National Road Safety Day 2013" and to reiterate their 7-point demand for safer roads. The oiganisation observes the day annually on October 22 marking the death anniversary of Jahanara Kanchan, wife of film actor Iliyas Kanchan, the organisation's founder.
The demands include creation of a separate tribunal for speedy disposal of road accident cases and formulation of a law allowing the authorities to try not just the driver, but also those responsible for vehicle and road safety.
As per The Daily Star reports, over 27 people have already been killed in road accidents this month, with at least ten falling victim to crashes during the Eid-ul-Azha rush. The figure was approximately five times higher during Eid-ul-Fitr.
According to police records, 3,300 people on an average were annually killed in the last decade due to reckless driving, lax enforcement of traffic laws and people's negligence
towards traffic rules.
A report by Accident Research Institute, studying road accidents between 1998 and 2010, found that 45.1 percent of all accidents are caused by heavy vehicles like trucks and buses.
However, giving in to pressure from transport owners and trade union leaders, the government, in September, decided to term such deaths as "accidental”.
This means that the responsible drivers would be eligible for bail and would not even be considered for intentional murder.
Speakers at yesterday's press conference also deplored over not being able to congregate in public to commemorate the day and gather support for their cause due to the indefinite police ban on rallies and assemblies.
"We have not yet received an affirmation from police," said Ilyas Kanchan.