Background Safe Highway is a multifunctional issue and requires more attention to reduce the ever-increasing of road crashes and accidents. Vehicles using National and Regional Highways (NRH) in Bangladesh have a wide variation in operating characteristics with a combination of motorized and non-motorized forms of transport such as farm tractors, animal carts and rickshaws which share the same road of first moving to motorized traffic

Thousands of roadside markets and other infrastructures are dangerous and threatening in addition to extensive practices of pedestrians Jaywalking & illegal road crossing by foot due to lack of overhead crossing often contribute to causing.

Mix Traffic using highways & locally made poor standard vehicles like locally made nonnotarized transport, Human Pulling Rickshaw, Bicycle, horse and bull carts.

Roadside Markets like shops, village markets, Hawkers, workshops, mosques & schools’ other infrastructure bi-lane, shoulder, road makings, median road signs, uneven surface, straight sub-lane, small shoulder and without road shoulder, muddy side roads, poor design of median, poor road markings, poor road signs are a common phenomenon in highways

Cars, buses, and trucks frequently drive at high speed without headlights illuminated or on full beam. Drivers overtake other vehicles at inappropriate moments and cause head-on collisions

Methods Use Police HQ MAPS data, Accident Research Center library & Bangladesh Road Transport Authority annual report 2015–2023 newspaper cutting

Results Road-worthy vehicles can reduce accidents & congestion in great numbers. Chaotic traffic movement and congestion on roads are very common in Bangladesh which is rated 15 as one of the high-risk countries in the world. As a cost on average 12–14 people are killed every day and annually 4200 on average which affects 2% of the GDP

Conclusions We need to educate the citizens, require strong political commitment from the government, and provide proper facilities to avoid road accidents and loss of life by traffic crashes.