Government agencies are emphasising only development projects without any focus on planning and research, prominent transport expert Prof Shamsul Hoque said yesterday.
While tyre burst could be the most plausible cause for the March 19 road crash in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila, it was the absence of guardrails that led to many fatalities and severe injuries, said Buet’s Accident Research Institute (ARI).
The bus that went off the Dhaka-Bhanga expressway and crashed killing 19 people yesterday should have been taken off the roads four months ago when the authorities suspended its permits following a fatal crash.