Sunday 16 November 2008

Road Traffic Accidents & Students


The roads in Bangladesh are devoid of any laws that are obeyed or enforced. I doubt the government agencies keep any statistics on the number of deaths from road accidents.

Then again is it the governments fault? We seem to blame everything on the government. In the west if the government didn't do it then an NGO would do it. Yes, this wouldn't work in BD because an NGO would only function if it could siphon off money from a foreign country in the name of helping locals.

I read today this article about Students vandalizing private vehicles because of an accident that killed a fellow student. Read the article. It's quite sad that these so-called students study at a university. I mean they are supposed to be the cream of educated - people fit for running the country. How fit can this lot be when they behave in such Neanderthal manner??!

You want to protest?? Fair enough. Come up with some constructive criticism. How can it be fixed? Well unlike the students of Dania University College in Jatrabari demands I do not think that introducing a zebra crossing will improve the situation. It will only work if it is enforced. Obviously these moronic (un)-educated scum have probably read that in the west there are such things. Well they didn't research the bit that in the west they don't have a intercity highway running through the middle of a city!!

Now to the other point - loss to the country. All the vehicles sold in the country are of foreign origin including the parts. The amount of damage such thugs cause is untold to the particular persons vehicle. Ever thought of the effects on the country's finance with regards to adding even more pressure on buying foreign goods with the little foreign reserves the country holds? I guess it's above the intelligence of the people who commit such acts....

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