At least 21 people died and 39 were injured daily in road accidents in Bangladesh from 2015 to 2022, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.
The Samity, ahead of the National Road Safety Day tomorrow, said at least 61,616 people were killed and 1.12 lakh injured in 44,171 road crashes in those eight years.
The organisation compiled the data from media reports.
It said 8,642 people were killed in 6,581 road crashes in 2015; 6,055 were killed in 4,312 road crashes in 2016; 7,397 killed in 4,979 in road crashes in 2017; 7,221 killed in 5,514 road accidents in 2018.
Around 5,516 road accidents claimed the lives of 7,855 people in 2019; 4,891 incidents killed 6,686 people in 2020; 5,629 accidents killed 7,809 people in 2021; and 6,749 accidents left 9,951 dead in 2022, it said.
