MAJOR FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN BANGLADESH

Represented By: Fayaz Uddin Student ID: Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh.

Introduction WHAT IS MFRTA? ACCIDENT STATISTICS MOST FREQUENT ACCIDENT TYPES ACCIDENT BY ROUTES & TIME MAJOR ROAD ACCIDENT CAUSATIONS IMPROVING ROAD SAFETY

Introduction In Bangladesh, road transport has to bear solely the major part of passenger and freight movements. It is found that, of all total reported accidents, 65 percent are fatal and a considerable number of fatal accidents are occurring every year in which a large number of road users lose their lives in each accident.

WHAT IS MFRTA MAJOR FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT (MFRTA) is defined as the single accident in which at least three persons are killed”. Accident database of shows that this type of accident constitutes nearly 5% percent of total fatal accidents and 3 % of all accidents in Bangladesh

ACCIDENT STATISTICS In total, there were 505 reported major fatal accidents over the period which claims 2446 lives and injured at least 7427 people.

MOST FREQUENT ACCIDENT TYPES It is found that Head on type accidents which accounts for 39% of total accidents dominating the others. This is followed by Lost Control 34%, Rear end 16%, Hit object on/off road 7%. These four accidents types accounted for 96% of the total accidents. Hit object on/off road type of accident represents the highest rate of about 5.0 fatalities and 23.5 injuries per accident.

Buses and Trucks are involved in 71% of all major fatal accidents.

ACCIDENT BY ROUTES & TIME It is found that 24% of total fatal accidents are occurred in Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox's Bazar (N1). Bogra-Rangpur-Dinajpur-Banglabandha (N5) which 13% & Dhaka-Sylhet (N2) highway 8% of total accidents.

MAJOR ROAD ACCIDENT CAUSATIONS Accidents constitute a complex phenomenon of multiple causation. The etiological factors are classified into human and environmental factors. Out of 505 accidents reported in newspapers, accident factors are informed properly in 263 accidents. It is shown that 70 percent of accidents involved a human factor with 23 percent involving a road factor and just 7 percent involved a vehicle factor.

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IMPROVING ROAD SAFETY DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTERMEASURES: 1.DIRECT COUNTERMEASURES 2.INDIRECT COUNTERMEASURES

DIRECT COUNTERMEASURES Improvement of shoulders Installation of median Treatment of Road side objects Provision and improvement of crashworthy infrastructure Provision of NMT facilities Provision of paved shoulders Intersection design/Improvement Access Control Behavioral modification Road safety audit Proper Road Maintain

INDIRECT COUNTERMEASURES Controlling speed Properly trained drivers by authorized centers. Emergency medical care Safety improvement

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