A committee investigating the road accident in Manikganj has blamed the 'unskilled' drivers for Saturday's head-on collision that killed five people including filmmaker Tareque Masud and ATN News chief editor Ashfaque (Mishuk) Munier.
'There is a turn near the (accident site). The bus running over speed limit had been on the right side of the road when it hit the microbus [carrying the victims],' committee chief Arifur Rahman told reporters on Sunday.
'The microbus was also overly speedy. It was running through the middle of the road to overtake another bus,' he said.
The Deluxe Paribahan bus was on its way from Dhaka to Chuadanga while the microbus was coming from Manikganj.
Rahman, supervising engineer (Dhaka circle) of the Roads and Highways Department , is heading the three-member committee.
The team spoke to journalists, witnesses and local residents during its one-hour visit to the scene at Jokha near Ghior in Manikganj.
Ghior police sub-inspector Mohammad Lutfar Rahman filed a case over the accident on Saturday night.
The other deceased in the accident are microbus driver 'Mustafiz', Masud's production manager 'Wasim' and staff 'Kajal'.
Masud's wife Catherine, artiste Dhali Al Mamun and his wife Dilara Begum Joly, Masud's production unit assistant Sayeedul Islam were also injured in the accident.
Doctors at Square Hospital said Catherine was out of danger but Mamun, who was critically injured, would take at least weeks to become stable.
Source : New Age
