Government fails in Eid management: Road fatalities increase by 8.26% compared to last Eid

BD Digest Reporter

During Eid-ul-Fitr, 377 accidents occurred on the country’s roads, railways and waterways. 394 people were killed and 1,288 were injured. Of these, 351 people died in 346 road accidents alone. This year, the number of fatalities on the road has increased by 8.26 percent compared to last year.

The Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Association announced the accident at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) auditorium in the capital at around 11am on Monday. The report was prepared by the association’s Road Accident Monitoring Cell after reviewing news from various media outlets.

The information from the report was presented at the press conference by the Secretary General of the Passenger Welfare Association, Md. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury.

The report said that from March 14, the day of Eid, the start of the journey, to March 28, the day of returning to work after Eid, 346 road accidents killed 351 people and injured 1,046 people. During Eid-ul-Fitr 2025, 315 road accidents killed 322 people and injured 826 people. Compared to last year, this year’s Eid road accidents increased by 8.95 percent, fatalities by 8.26 percent and injuries by 21 percent.

During the same period, 35 people were killed and 223 injured in 23 railway accidents. In 8 accidents on the waterways, 8 people were killed, 19 injured and 3 are missing. During the same period, 2,178 people were admitted to Pangu Hospital after being injured in road accidents.

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report said that this time too, motorcycles are at the top of the list of accidents. This Eid, 125 motorcycle accidents resulted in 135 deaths and 114 injuries, which is about 36.12 percent of the total road accidents, 38.46 percent of the deaths and 10.89 percent of the injuries.

Analysis by the Passenger Welfare Association shows that of the total number of vehicles involved in accidents, 27.16 percent were motorcycles, 17.73 percent were trucks-covered vans, 16.22 percent were buses, 15.28 percent were battery-powered rickshaws, 8.49 percent were private cars-microbuses, 7.73 percent were nachiman-karimon, and 7.35 percent were CNG-powered auto-rickshaws.

An analysis of the type of accidents showed that 43 percent occurred on national highways, 30 percent on regional highways, and 22 percent on feeder roads.

At the press conference, Mozammel Haque Chowdhury said that under pressure from old bureaucrats, former mafia leaders, and the current government-backed leaders of the Bus Owners Association and the Workers Federation, the road-related ministries and organizations have not included any civil society representatives to speak on behalf of passengers in the Eid management meetings.