# 'Reducing road traffic accidents in Bangladesh '

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Created:** [January 27, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414 "2019-01-27T05:18:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414/1 "2019-01-27T05:18:12Z")

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[https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32758-2/fulltext](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32758-2/fulltext)

interested me

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**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414/2 "2019-01-27T17:13:57Z")

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_“Between the turn of the century and 2011, the incidence of road traffic accidents in Bangladesh has been decreasing, and the World Bank has strongly emphasised the need to improve road safety in a public awareness campaign.”_

Wait… what? Looks like the accident numbers have already been shrinking. 🤔 It is becoming less a problem, not more.

I guess they need to hurry and reduce accidents before they become nonexistent by themselves.

Some of my favorite old cheap shirts come from Bangladesh! Hey, wait just a second… don’t they have much bigger problems to worry about there other than traffic accidents?

_ **CSA** _  
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414/3 "2019-01-28T20:19:59Z")

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> [@common\_sense\_answer](#):
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> Looks like the accident numbers have already been shrinking. 🤔 It is becoming less a problem, not more.

It’s still high.

> [@common\_sense\_answer](#):
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> don’t they have much bigger problems to worry about there other than traffic accidents?

Yes, but they can reduce traffic accidents and communicable diseases at the same time.

I mentioned the article because the causes interested me, a sign of Bangladesh’s culture.

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**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414/4 "2019-01-28T21:17:54Z")

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Individuals in Bangladesh are more likely to die from…  
Cancer  
Lung Disease  
Tuberculosis  
Influenza and Pneumonia  
Stroke  
Coronary Heart Disease  
Diabetes Mellitus  
Kidney Disease  
Liver Disease  
Hypertension  
Low Birth Weight  
Oral Cancer  
Peptic Ulcer Disease  
Falls  
Asthma  
… than from traffic accidents. That problem is way down there…  
… Then there’s extreme poverty, illiteracy, inflation, etcetera.

In my opinion any money spent on reducing traffic accidents that could possibly be channeled elsewhere is a big waste of money, especially since most of the problems listed are increasing and traffic deaths are already declining.

Did I mention that I like my cheap shirts made there?  
🌴🕶🌴

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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/reducing-road-traffic-accidents-in-bangladesh/133414/5 "2019-01-29T04:24:36Z")

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> [@common\_sense\_answer](#):
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> In my opinion any money spent on reducing traffic accidents that could possibly be channeled elsewhere is a big waste of money,

Congrats on looking it up. Spending money to prevent traffic accidents saves money.