Dhaka, Oct. 22 -- More than half of the drivers do not even have licences, according to a group working for road safety.

Widespread protests erupted after the deaths of filmmaker Tareque Masud and ATN News CEO Mishuk Munier in 2011, and college students Abdul Karim Rajib and Dia Khanom Mim in 2018.

Over a month before Tareque and Mishuk's deaths, 43 school students and another man died after a mini-truck that was carrying them back from a football match crashed and toppled into a roadside pond in Chattogram's Mirsarai in one of the worst tragic road crashes in Bangladesh's history.

The drivers involved in these accidents were punished and the government changed the law, raising penalties for drivers for road crashes, but shocks and pro...