about present situation in Bangladesh of road accidents

1. Road Accidents
In Bangladesh

2. Prepared by:
Tanvir Hasan M 140204565
Nusrat Sharmin M140204568
Jagannath University, Dhaka.
Department of Marketing

3. Context:
•Introduction
•Why is road safety a major concern?
•What Is MFRTA?
•Accident Statistics
•Causes of accidents
•Most Frequent Accident Types
•Accident By Routes
•Major Road Accident Causations
•Improving Road Safety

4. Introduction :
According To CRP (Central Rehabitation For Parasailed )Bangladesh’s Website, ‘Statistics
From The Road Safety Cell (RSC) Of The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Show
The Annual Fatality Rate In Road Accident In Bangladesh Is 85.6 Per 10,000 Vehicles
Which Compares To Rates Of Below 3 Per 10,000 Vehicles In Most Developed Countries. The
Annual Death Toll In Road Accidents In Bangladesh Is More Than 5,000
People. Not A Single Day Passes In Dhaka When Some Types Of Accidents, Fatal Or Non-
fatal, Don’t Occur On Its Roads. But Many Of These Accidents Are Avoidable. When
Unnecessary Accidents Occur At Such A Level On A Very Regular Basis, It Is Hardly An
Accident, But A System Made For Murdering Innocent People. From 2011 To
2014 Bangladesh Has Lost About 21,000 People In Road Traffic Accidents. A Clear
Link Was Made Between Road Safety And Sustainable Development.’ And The Executive
Summary Of The Report Thus Starts, ‘Road Traffic Injuries Are The Eighth Leading
Cause Of Death Globally ….’ It Warns, ‘Current Trends Suggest That By 2030 Road
Traffic Deaths Will Become The Fifth Cause Of Death Unless Urgent Action Is Taken.

5. Why is road safety a major concern?
▪A new epidemic:
1.24 million annual deaths / 20-50 million non-fatal injuries
▪ Consequences both humanitarian and economic
1-2% of GDP, 100 billion USD annual loss
▪ Urgency of prioritizing
5 million lives can be saved annually through road safety measures

6. What Is MFRTA?
MAJOR FATAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
(MFRTA) is defined as the single accident in which at least
three persons are killed”.
▪ Annual deaths
3137 (official statistics: average for 2002-2012)
5162 (2013: Nirapad sarak Chai; includes deaths in route and after
release)
▪ Fatality index (official statistics):
- 20 deaths annually for each 10,000 vehicles (2011)
- Decline from 75 deaths per 10,000 vehicles in 2000

7. Accident Statistics
▪Involvement Of Buses and Trucks in Multi vehicle Accident

8. Accident Statistics
▪Victims and perpetrators
Victims Accident types Perpetrators
Pedestrians 41% Hit-and-run 42% Bus 38%
Bus/car
passengers
19% Head-on
collision
19% Truck 31%
2/3 wheelers
riders/passenger
s
16% Over-turned 13% Motor-cycles 12%
Truck/bus
drivers/passeng
er
14% Rear-end hit 9% Cars/jeeps 11%
Cyclists 3% Side swipe 6% 3 wheelers 9%

9. Accident Statistics
▪Reality check on post-crash facilities
Post-crash care Availability
• Emergency room based injury surveillance system No
• Emergency access telephone number No
• Seriously injured transported by ambulance <10%
• Permanently disabled due to lack of facilities 13%
• Emergency training for doctors No
• Emergency training for nurses No
• Trauma centres Severely inadequate

10. Accident Statistics
▪Post-accident needs
Short-term/immediate Long-term
Need Ideal provider Need Ideal provider
• First aid Local people, vehicle
staff, nearby medical
centre, adjoining local
govt. reports
• Compensation Courts, insurance
companies
• Transportation Local people, nearby
medical centre, police,
• Long-term
treatment
Family, government
• Protect people
& vehicles
Police, local leaders • Assistive devices Family, community,
insurance companies
• Compensation
for victim
Vehicle owners,
Insurance companies
• IG skills for
disabled
NGOs, social
entrepreneurs
• Employment for
alternative family
member
Government,
community

11. Accident Statistics
▪Driver characteristics
Characteristic Finding
License • 97% report having license
• 20% report obtaining license without test
• 92% pay bribe and 54% face severe time delays in obtaining
license
Trade union • 80% are unionized
Training • 81% learnt driving skills through informal process usually with
a ‘mentor’ (us tad)
• Learning hours with ustad 1500
• Commercial learning hours is 93
Cost of training • Informal process: approx. Tk. 4000
• Formal process: approx. Tk 6000
Confidence on learning • 70% fully confident
Work-load • About 20% extremely over-worked with 6-7 days weekly and
13-16 hours daily
Accident penalty • 42% faced no penalty in case of accidents
• 58% of incurred accidents minor in nature

12. Causes Of Accidents
• Mental, physical and financial pressures on drivers
• General lack of road safety awareness
• Absence of supplementary facilities on roads – hard
shoulder, bus bays, helpful signal & markings, access roads
• Failure to productively reconcile local economic growth
needs with road safety needs

13. • Reckless driving
• Untrained drivers
• Unfit vehicles
• Simultaneous operation of motorized and non-motorized
vehicles without separation and adequate rules
• Vulnerable road-side activities
• Faulty road design
• Poor traffic enforcement
• Lack of road safety awareness and risky pedestrian behavior
• Culture of impunity and poor legal redress
Causes Of Accidents

14. •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.

15. •Accident By Routes
▪ It is found that 24% of total fatal accidents are occurred in Dhaka-
Chittagong-Cox's Bazaar (N1). Bogra-Rangpur-Dinajpur-Banglabandha
(N5) which 13% & Dhaka-Sylhet (N2) highway 8% of total
accidents.

16. •Accident By Routes

17. •Major Road Accident Causations
▪Accidents constitute a complex phenomenon of multiple causation.
The ecological 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.

18. •Improving Road Safety
Development Of Countermeasures:
▪ Direct Countermeasures
▪ Indirect Countermeasures

19. •Improving Road Safety
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

20. •Improving Road Safety
Indirect Countermeasures
▪ Controlling Speed
▪ Properly Trained Drivers By Authorized Centers.
▪ Emergency Medical Care
▪ Safety Improvement

21. And be careful…