64 die from road crashes every day

On average, 64 people die every day from injuries suffered in traffic accidents, a government-supervised survey reveals.

The startling figure belies daily media reports of deaths caused by road crashes and shows that such fatalities go grossly under-reported.

The 2016 survey, covering as many as three lakh people in 16 districts as sample, identifies four major causes -- suicide, traffic accident, drowning and fall -- of deaths from injuries . It finds that 50 adults die from traffic-accident injuries daily, making it the number one cause of all injury-related deaths among adults.

The number of children (below 18) killed on roads rose from nine a day to 14 a day, show the corresponding figures of BHIS-2003 and BHIS-2016.

The survey finds that on average, 300 people are killed due to different forms of injuries, 660 more become disabled, and 55,000 others suffer from non-fatal injuries every day in Bangladesh.