Someone must be held accountable?

Unless someone or some entity is held accountable we would not see any improvement on the roads

There is no cessation in road accidents on the different routes of the country. In the span of just 24 hours from Thursday night, a total of 19 deaths on road were reported in this newspaper on Saturday. The most gruesome of the accidents took place when a truck ploughed through a crowd in Khagrachhari, killing 8 people, three of them belonging to a single family. And deaths by accident of all the 19 people around the country is not an isolated incident; everyday people are being killed on the roads and the most surprising part of it is that there is no seriousness seen among the relevant people or entities about it. 
It has become almost acceptable in our national psyche that none can be held accountable for the unnecessary deaths on the roads and highways. We have a communications minister; we have law enforcers on the roads and highways; we have driving licensing authorities, we have people to give clearance certificate for the fitness of vehicle; but none of these people give us an explanation why so many people are dying on the roads every day. 
And yet the family of a victim of road accident equally suffers like the family that loses one of its members in any ‘sensational’ death in the country. Contrary to popular perception, it is really naïve to see that deaths in the roads are ordained by fate. If we take this perception as granted then we have to conclude that our country is particularly targeted by the Providence for killing people on the roads. So many people are dying in road accidents! 
Yet the rationality within us tells that if we make some improvement in certain traffic conditions including the road infrastructure; road accidents in Bangladesh can greatly be minimized like other nations in the world. Each life is valuable and all death is death whether it is in a road accident, or in a terrorist attack; and an unnatural death like these should be seen as seriously as the other.
The point here is unless you hold someone or some entity accountable we would not see any improvement on the roads. And those who make callous comment about driving skill of drivers—such as if a person who can differentiate between a person and a goat on the road is a fit driver—should be snubbed on the face. If the truck driver in Khagrachhari was in control of the wheel of his vehicle, eight people who died could have been breathing air now like any other person. 

 

Someone must be held accountable?

Unless someone or some entity is held accountable we would not see any improvement on the roads

There is no cessation in road accidents on the different routes of the country. In the span of just 24 hours from Thursday night, a total of 19 deaths on road were reported in this newspaper on Saturday. The most gruesome of the accidents took place when a truck ploughed through a crowd in Khagrachhari, killing 8 people, three of them belonging to a single family. And deaths by accident of all the 19 people around the country is not an isolated incident; everyday people are being killed on the roads and the most surprising part of it is that there is no seriousness seen among the relevant people or entities about it. It has become almost acceptable in our national psyche that none can be held accountable for the unnecessary deaths on the roads and highways. We have a communications minister; we have law enforcers on the roads and highways; we have driving licensing authorities, we have people to give clearance certificate for the fitness of vehicle; but none of these people give us an explanation why so many people are dying on the roads every day. And yet the family of a victim of road accident equally suffers like the family that loses one of its members in any sensational death in the country. Contrary to popular perception, it is really nave to see that deaths in the roads are ordained by fate. If we take this perception as granted then we have to conclude that our country is particularly targeted by the Providence for killing people on the roads. So many people are dying in road accidents! Yet the rationality within us tells that if we make some improvement in certain traffic conditions including the road infrastructure; road accidents in Bangladesh can greatly be minimized like other nations in the world. Each life is valuable and all death is death whether it is in a road accident, or in a terrorist attack; and an unnatural death like these should be seen as seriously as the other. The point here is unless you hold someone or some entity accountable we would not see any improvement on the roads. And those who make callous comment about driving skill of driverssuch as if a person who can differentiate between a person and a goat on the road is a fit drivershould be snubbed on the face. If the truck driver in Khagrachhari was in control of the wheel of his vehicle, eight people who died could have been breathing air now like any other person.