Nepal’s unsafe roads

A death here or there seldom gets the public attention or that of the authorities.

Road accidents this past weekend claimed the lives of 20 people across the country. At least 12 people died in a bus accident on Friday night in Dang, while on Saturday five perished in a car crash at Chandragiri and two were killed in another road accident in Baglung. Separately, a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run in Syangja on Monday. Road transport, it appears, is getting riskier day by day in Nepal. But there have been few if any effective initiatives to cut down on the number of fatal incidents on our roads.