Safe driving
Rezaur Rahman, Dhaka
I feeling very sad after visiting a friend, a doctor from London, lying in a hospital in Dhaka with a broken jaw and a cracked skull. His microbus was hit head on by a truck from the opposite direction between Bogra and Sherpur. Two occupants, including the driver died on the spot but Allah spared him, maybe for the help he rendered to so many people or for the work he undertook in his native village, to be completed. He waited all these years before he retired as GP in UK only to come home and start rebuilding his area. I know the gradual bend on the northern highway where the accident took place. I too had been driving through this bend and about ten such bends, on similar missions. The authority who maintains these world class roads of the north are acting rather insensitively. These horrifying accidents can easily be averted if they just pay a little attention to its safety and maintain it. It does not cost much to apply common sense and some sincerity. Neither the ministry nor the policy makers do have any time for this. And no attempts have been made so far to train the drivers properly. They are driving on the high ways without proper training and no instruction or information on the aspects of driving heavy vehicles are available. And there is another point that is very disturbing -- the fundamentals of safe driving are rarely appreciated, even by some of the literate car owners.
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