Dhaka, May 13 -- A total of 510 people have died in 527 road accidents across Bangladesh during April, with another 1,268 people getting injured.

The data was published on Wednesday in an observation report published by the Accident Monitoring Cell of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity. According to the report, a total of 586 accidents involving roads, railways, and waterways claimed 563 lives and injured 1,279 people during the month.

In a press statement, the organisation's Secretary General Md Mozammel Haque Chowdhury presented the report and demanded a complete overhaul of the transport sector's management system.

"If the transport sector is run under the supervision of local and foreign transport experts instead of bureaucrats, it wil...