Shawdesh Desk;

In August, 403 road accidents were recorded in the country that left 378 people, including 51 children, dead and 794 injured, according to a latest report.

As many as 146 people died in 142 motorcycle accidents, accounting for 38.62 per cent of the total deaths. The motorcycle accident rate was 35.23 per cent.

As many as 93 pedestrians were killed in road accidents which is 24.60 per cent of the total fatalities, according to a press release of the Road Safety Foundation.

The Road Safety Foundation has prepared the report based on information from nine national dailies, seven online news portals and electronic media.

According to statistics on vehicle-based deaths in accidents, 146 motorcyclists and pillion riders were killed (38.62 per cent); 18 bus passengers were killed (4.76 per cent); 17 truck, covered-van, pickup, tractor, trolley, lorry, tanker riders were killed (4.49 per cent); 21 car, microbus, ambulance riders were killed (5.55 per cent); 56 passengers of easy bike, auto-rickshaw, and mishuk were killed (14.81 per cent); 13 people (3.43 per cent) were killed in locally modified vehicle (Nosimon-Karimon-Mahindra-Brickbhanga machine cars) accidents; and 14 people (3.70 per cent) were killed in bicycle-rickshaw and rickshaw-van accidents.

According to the Road Safety Foundation’s monitoring and analysis, 169 (41.93 per cent) of the accidents occurred on national highways, 148 (36.72 per cent) on regional roads, 45 (11.16 per cent) on rural roads, 37 (9.18 per cent) on urban roads and four (0.99 per cent) accident took place at other places.