National Committee Urges to Stop Unfit Vehicles Preventing Road Accidents

In order to avoid traffic accidents and preserve lives, the National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads, and Railways requested actions against all varieties of unlawful vehicles, including buses without route licenses and unlicensed drivers, on Wednesday. 

The group has demanded that mobile court drives immediately begin on all national highways, interdistrict routes, and regional roadways throughout the nation, including the capital.

This request was made to the relevant authorities, including the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges and the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), in a statement by the national committee's president Mohammad Shahid Mia and general secretary Ashis Kumar Dey. 

Additionally, the statement asked the BRTA, police, highway police, and district administration to take tough action against unlawful vehicles and lawbreakers, particularly unlicensed and young drivers.

In a statement, it was expressed that all relevant parties were mute in constructing risk-free roads, despite the fact that accidents and unexpected deaths frequently occur on roads and highways in various sections of the country.

The national committee's leaders said in the statement that numerous times in recent memory, responsible government authorities, including the minister of road transportation, have attributed accidents on defective and unlawful cars as well as inexperienced and unlicensed drivers. 

However, the responsible government organizations are not combating these anomalies and poor management in any meaningful way. 

Roads and highways have reportedly turned into death traps as a result, they said.