Our concern topic is road safety in Bangladesh 2009

The Bangladesh country paper

Presented by :
Rowshan ara begum
Deputy secretary
Ministry of communication
Bangladesh
Brief details of Bangladesh
# Bangladesh, a country in south Asia

# population around 150 million

# Area 1,47,570 sq. km

# population density about 980

Inhabitants per sq. km.

# Gdp per capita $600(US).

# Population growth 1.42 per annum

# About 27 percent of the population is

living in the urban areas

# the rate of urbanization over the last

decade has been between 7 and 8 percent

 1. National statistical trends in road accidents :

a.b.&c. Number of road Accidents, Fatalities and Injuries

No. of accidents No. of fatalities No. of injuries Total casualties

FIR FIR FIR FIR
MAAP MAAP MAAP MAAP
1998 4769 3533 3085 2358 3397 3297 7082 5655
1999 4916 3948 3314 2893 3453 3469 6767 6362
2000 4457 3970 3430 3058 1911 3485 5341 6543
2001 4991 2925 3109 2388 3127 2565 6236 4953
2002 4918 3941 3398 3053 3772 3285 7170 6338
2003 4749 4114 3289 3334 3818 3740 7107 7074
2004 3917 3566 2968 3150 2752 3026 5620 6176
2005 3955 3322 3187 2960 2755 2570 5942 5530
2006 3794 3549 3193 3180 2409 2123 5602 5283
2007 4860 3910 3749 3250 3273 2102 7022 5352
2008 4427 3662 3765 3424 3284 1925 7049 5349
2009 3381 2958 2686 5644

note : vehicles on road excluding motorcycle and others non-motorized vehicles

source : Police Reported Accidents and BRTA

SOURCE MAAP5(MICROCOMPUTER
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS PACKAGE) DATA :
D. Pedestrian Deaths per million population and per 10,000 vehicles
Year Pedestrian Percent of Ped` n death Ped` n death Ped` n death
fatalities pedestrian per million per 10,000 per 10,000 on
fatalities population registered road vehicles
vehicles
1998 51 10 23 30
1999 49 12 26 34
2000 47 12 25 33
2001 50 10 19 25
2002 52 13 23 31
2003 48 13 22 29
2004 49 12 20 26
2005 50 12 19 25
2006 53 13 21 26
2007 58 15 22 28
2008 48 13 19 23

Note : vehicles on road excluding motorcycles and others non-motorized vehicles

Source : RSC Report 2004, BRTA and MAAP Data Base

e. motorcyclist death :
we all known that Bangladesh is a densely populated country and in these densely country road
accident occurs most of the time in several places. Bangladesh has about 1.40 million motorized
and could be over 3 million non motorized vehicles. Out of the motorized vehicles about 62% 2
and 3 wheeler vehicles and the rest vehicles are of different categories such as car, jeep, bus,
truck, pick up is steadily increasing along with the increase of mad mileages.

In the recent years smooth road are being constructed adding speed to transportation and
frequency of movement of people. Simultaneously number of road accidents are also soaring
high. Road accidents in Bangladesh turns on an average about 4000 lives and injure 2 or 3 times.

Growth of motor vehicles and road accident casualties for last fourteen years vehicle
Year Registered Deaths Injury Total casualties
vehicles
1995 44004 1653 2864 4517
1996 46457 2041 3301 5342
1997 32283 3162 5076 8238
1998 32481 3085 3997 7082
1999 31503 3314 3453 6767
2000 28764 3430 3211 6641
2001 42510 3109 3172 6281
2002 54877 3398 3770 7168
2003 59248 3289 3818 7107
2004 49202 2748 1080 5621
2005 65878 3187 2754 5941
2006 80305 3193 2409 5602
2007 121272 3749 3273 7022

Source : NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY TRATEGIC ACTION PLAN 2008-2010

Vehicular involvement in road accidents
Vehicle type Percent of Percent on Percent in all Percentage Percent in
vehicles vehicles accidents in fatal pedestrian
(registrared) (on road) accident accidents
Bus/minibus 5% 6% 33 35% 38%
Trucks 8% 10% 26 29% 30%
Jeep/car/taxi 24% 16% 12 7% 9%
Microbus/pickup 2% 3% 7 6% 9%
Auto 15% 16% 5 5% 3%
rickshaw/tempo
Motorcycle 42% 45% 5 5% 4%
Rickshaw/rickshaw 0% 0% 5 4% 1%
Bicycle 0% 0% 3 3% 0%
Others 3% 3% 5 6% 6%
Total 100% 100% 100 100% 100%

Source : Accident Research institute (ARI), BUET

f. roads accident deaths of children less than 5 years:
Child fatalities of road traffic accidents in Bangladesh
Year Children Children Children Total children Percent
fatalities fatalities fatalities fatalities children
(age 0-5) (age 6-10) (age 11-15) (age 0-15) fatalities
(out of all)
2001 68 173 102 343 21%
2002 67 210 108 385 21%
2003 68 216 111 395 19%
2004 85 177 104 366 21%
2005 73 140 103 316 20%
2006 168 150 91 409 19%
2007 108 208 130 446 19%
2008 106 184 84 337 17%
2009

Note : Traffic fatalities with known age within seven years are 15278 ( 66%) out of 23194 in the period of
1998-2004

Source : MAAP Data Base

g. accidents and fatalities per 100 million vehicle kilometers

Year Total veh –km No. of No. of No. of No. of
accidents accidents per fatalities fatalities per
100 million 100 million
veh-km veh-km
1999 13,419,385,000 4,916 37 3,314 25
2000 12,719,533,000 4,357 34 3,430 27
2002 14,125,435,000 4,918 35 3,398 24
2004 21,042,770,900 3,917 19 3,150 15
Source : RHD, MAAP5, ARI (Accident Research Institute)

Source :

Accident and casualties police reported FIR and MAAP Database vehicle km : RHD
Road user cost annual report (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 )

Accident research institute (ARI), BUET

2. Current national government policy for road
safety :
a. Overall road safety target for our government :
50% reduction in road traffic accident fatalities within 25 years. Source “draft national road
safety strategic action plan 2008-2010”.

b. National road safety policy, strategy; plan of

action and/or priority areas (please include
website or public information source):
S1 no. Sectors Objectives
1. National road safety council Reduction of road accident
and casualties by
implementation of
adequately resourced
national and district multi
sect oral road safety plans
under the guidance of NRSC
and monitored by BRTA
2. Accident data system To establish an accurate and
comprehensive national
accident and casualty
database, to ensure that the
data is disseminated and use
to identify problems and
design remedial measures.
3. Road engineering To prevent road accidents
through more safety
conscious planning, design
construction and
maintenance of roads and
improve hazardous locations
using low cost.
4. traffic legislation Revise and extract traffic
legislation promoting road
user compliance with
regulations intended to
maintain a safe and efficient
traffic flow
5. traffic enforcement To develop a more effective
 and efficient traffic police
capable of instilling safer
road user attitudes and
behavior through the use of
modern training, increased
mobility, equipment and
expanded power.
6. Driver training and testing To improve road safety by
ensuring minimum standards
for driver competence
through improved driver
training and testing
procedures.
7. Vehicle safety To improve the road
worthiness of vehicle using
roads by ensuring that
minimum safety standards
are met and to reduce the
negative effects of transport
on the environment,
particularly in terms of air
pollution.
8. Education and publicity To implement road safety
education and publicity
programmers in order to
improve the knowledge,
attitude and behaviors of all
road users, through a
combination of formal
education, non-formal
education, adult program me
and mass communication.
9. Medical services To improve the emergency
assistance, hospital care and
rehabilitation available for
road traffic accident victims
in addition to having the
medical professionals
actively promotes road
safety and help identify the
true incidence of road
accident casualties.

Source : “ draft national road safety strategic action plan 2008-2010”, BNRSC
 c. National road safety awareness campaigns and
training programs carried out :
To implement road safety education and publicity programs in order to improve the
knowledge, attitudes and behavior of all road users through a combination of formal
education, non-formal education, adult programs and mass communication.

Sub-sectors Agency responsible

Formal education Ministry of education
National curriculum and text book board
Non formal education Department of non formal education
Non government organization
Materials Ministry of education
Bangladesh road transport authority
Accident research institute( BUET )
Community programs Department of non formal education
Non government organization
Bangladesh road transport authority
Accident research institute( BUET )
Publicity Ministry of communication
Mass communication department
Bangladesh road transport authority
Training of BRTA staff Bangladesh road transport authority
Accident research institute ( BUET)

Source : “draft national road safety strategic action plan 2008-2010”, BNSRC

D. DESIGNATED NATIONAL LEAD AGENCY

FOR ROAD SAFRTY :
Bangladesh national road safety council ( NSRC)

E. Resources allocated to road safety issues. Sources

of financing road safety
(i.c road funds, road safety levies on insurance premiums )
f. national road safety reports or impact evaluation
reports of government programs published ( please
include website or public information source) :
RTA annual report 2008, BRTA

(http:// www.brta.gov.bd/road/NA_BRTA_REPORT_2008.doc)

g. involvement of the private sector.

# Number of major partnerships in the area of road safety and funding

# Number of major partnerships with NGOs (scope and funding)

3. National road safety indicators

a. Road users
# Laws on seat-belt wearing and “compliance”

# Motorcycle day time head lights-is it mandatory and how prevalent?

# Use, and minimum quality standard, of motorcycle helmets

# Use of child seat restraints in cars and child helmet for motorcycles

# Road safety education in schools

# Drinking and driving ( information from surveys, not prosecutions)

b. Road design :
1. Road network planning/design :

On the basis of guidelines and manuals by Road and Highways Department

# geometric design standard manual

# traffic sign manual

# road safety engineering manual

# road safety works manual

2. Road safety audits : “ guidelines for road safety audit 2005”- roads and highways
department under ministry of communications
3. Hazardous locations improvement
4. New safe crossings program
5. Motorcycle lanes
6. Bicycle and pedestrian lanes
7. National or local programs to make roads “forgiving” by removing or cushioning
roadside obstacles such as trees poles etc

c. Vehicles
1. Statistics

# Number of cars : 177644

# Number of buses and trucks : 136226

# Number of motorcycles : 619292

# Number of 3-wheelers : 148829

Source: no. of registered vehicle on 2008, BRTA

2. Technical safety requirements for new vehicles

3. Frequency of periodic inspection of vehicles ( and if mandatory/legislative?)
D. Road safety databases( is it
national/computerized, stakeholders involved,
does it provide information on the location of
accidents?)
E. Emergency response systems
# Extent of geographical coverage

# average response time

F. Alcohol and drugs tests

# Type of tests and when/low administered

# Is it part of road safety legislation?

4. Asian Highway road safety status and trends

a. Road safety actions specifically targeting the Asian Highway or trunk roads in general

Bangladesh has accede to Asian Highway on In Bangladesh road safety action until to date
dealt with trunk road in general. Government of Bangladesh has plans to target Asian
Highway in future.

b. Road safety related grants or loans from international sources.

c. Trends in road safety on the Asian Highway ( fatalities/accidents on Asian Highways
sections)

Accident data maintained on the basis of administrative jurisdiction and trunk road in general
until to date. Government of Bangladesh has plans to target Asian Highway in future.
 THANK YOU
all

Acknowledgement
Gratefully acknowledge the support and assistance
of accident Research centre (ARC) , BUET and
the Ministry of Communications