Ahead of the upcoming National Parliamentary Election, young people have demanded that political parties should include a clear commitment to ensuring safe roads for all through enactment of the Road Safety Law in their election manifestos. On the occasion of the ‘World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims’, the participated youth said this in a youth march and candle lit vigil in memory of road crash victims organized by the Ahsania Mission Youth Forum for Health and Wellbeing on the road of Shyamoli playground at 5 pm, a press release said.
They said that road crashes have become an epidemic due to the way people are dying on road every day. The most vulnerable group among road users is the youth and one of the leading causes of their death is road crashes. Therefore, an integrated safe road management is needed so that no more lives are lost on the roads. That is why in the next national parliamentary election, political parties must promise to formulate a road safety law, ensure its proper implementation, and implement an integrated safe road management in their election manifestos.
More than fifty young people, including road traffic victims and their family members, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector’s officials and people from various professions participated in the candle lit vigil. At this time, the youth demanded an effective “Road Safety Act” to reduce the number of injured and deaths in road crashes in Bangladesh by half by 2030.
Earlier, a workshop on Safe System Approach and Road Safety was held for youth from 12 noon to 4 pm.
