At least 7,221 people were killed in road accidents across the country in 2018, according to a report by the Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Organisation.
A further 15,446 people were injured in a total of 5,514 road crashes throughout the year, the report added.
Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, secretary general of the organisation, disclosed their findings at the launch of its Annual Road Accident Observation Report in National Press Club on Friday, according to a bdnews24 report.
The data is based on reports of road crashes published by national, regional, and online news agencies, he said.
The victims in 41.53 per cent of the reported cases died as a result of being run over by vehicles while 29.72 per cent of the deaths occurred in head-on collisions between vehicles.
Around 16.18 per cent of the road crash casualties resulted from vehicles falling into ditches.
The number of fatalities from road crashes in 2018 is lower than last year despite an increase in the number of reported accidents, according to the report.
In 2017, 4,979 road crashes left 7,397 dead and 16,193 injured.
The report also found that 394 were killed in a total of 370 railway accidents while 248 people were injured in 2018.
Waterway accidents left 126 dead and 234 injured while 387 people were reported missing.
Five aviation accidents claimed 55 casualties and left 32 injured, according to the data.
A total of 6,048 accidents on roads, railways, waterways, and airways occurred in 2018.
