Abstract:
Bangladesh is progressing day by day in every sector, but the negative side is that it’s increased
rate of Road Accident (RA). It is a big alarming issue and loss for our developing country. If we
compare the overcrowded population of this country to our road and transport infrastructure, it can
be seen that it is not sufficient. For this reason, unintended road accidents are constantly happening,
and its victims are people from all walks of life. According to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity
(PWAB) everyday more than 21 people loses their lives in RA in Bangladesh (2019). No research
or study can prevent road accidents unless the proper actions are taken. There are a bunch of
existing factors which are directly impacting RA in Bangladesh. Uneducated drivers, defective
vehicles, weak traffic management, people's lack of knowledge, unregulated speed, road and its
geometric inadequacy, lack of political will, law and order compliance, location type, weather,
time etc are the factors that have an effect on RA. The objective of this paper is to uphold the key
and causative factors of RA and to provide viable solutions with pragmatic propose model through
comprehensive study based on RA datasets of NIRAPAD SARAK CHAI (NISCHA) (from 2012
to 2019) and various newspapers, online articles, various research papers in between the year (2000
to 2019) to mitigate RA in Bangladesh.
