A Legal Approach to Prevent Road Accident in Bangladesh: Drawbacks and Recommendations

Abstract

As a serious man-made epidemic and distressing occurrence in the community is known road accident, which is affected though personally but afterwards harsh impact goes to social and economies field Major concern is road traffic accidents and picture of injuries have now emerged as outrageously or tremendously. The alarming rate of dreadful road traffic accidents may have increased due to certain reasons: lack of political concern, lack of accountability of the principal category of law abiding citizens, incompetent drivers, inadequate punishment etc. In a country with limited resources, like Bangladesh it considered as hinders of all development and caused worst impact on GDP. This study focused on observing the behavior of law abiding pedestrians and drivers; and try to relation under the obligation of Law as the sole identity of citizenship. Also, the road safety situation how developed and some contemporary issues and priorities are briefly discus in this dissertation.

Keywords: Safety, Transport, Traffic, Accident, Injure, Problem, Punishment.

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/81-07