Abstract

Road accident is an exquisite problem in highway transportation system which consistently related to a lot of deaths, injuries and property damages. Approximately 1.3 million individuals die in road fatalities each year, every day around 3,287 deaths occur all over the world. Further, even 20-50 million are injured or disabled. Low and middle-income countries are the main victim of this problem. The rate of an accident in Bangladesh is 13.6 per 100,000 people. With respect to road accidents in Dinajpur, a northern city of Bangladesh is in very severe condition. In last 5 years, about 49 accidents happened, about 51 people died, and more than 164 people injured very utterly. This research work presents an overview of the accident rates, involved vehicles, type of collisions, and time of the accidents in the highways, regional roads and city roads of Dinajpur city. The detail of the accident data was collected from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Dinajpur office. The analysis shows that the traffic accident occurs during the day time is more than 72% and during the night time it is about 28% only. Heavy loaded truck involves in 35%, bus involves in 24%, motorcycle involves in 16% in the road traffic accidents. All of these three vehicles contribute a percentage of all the accidents share 75% of the total accidents. ‘Head-on collision’ as the dominant accident type, about 30% accidents are account for this type involvement in fatal accidents. Other type of collisions is obstacle (10%), rear end (18%), side collision (18%). The maximum number of accidents, fatalities and injuries happen in 2018 at a number of 20, 30 and 123 respectively.