Dhaka, Oct. 21 -- Bangladesh has witnessed a staggering 116,726 deaths and 165,021 injuries in 67,890 road accidents over the past 12 years, according to the Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samiti (BJKS).

The organisation blamed widespread corruption, policy failures, and chronic mismanagement in the transport sector for what it described as "mass killings on the country's roads."

Speaking at a press conference marking National Road Safety Day 2025 at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on Tuesday, BJKS Secretary General Mozammel Haque Chowdhury said the country's road safety situation has turned into an "alarming humanitarian crisis."

"Before independence, 80 per cent of passenger movement in the country was through water and rail routes, and only 20 p...