Dhaka, June 4 -- Rear-end collisions on Bangladesh's upgraded expressways have been rising sharply, with broken-down or parked vehicles emerging as a deadly new hazard on roads that were widened to prevent head-on crashes.

Five people died on Monday morning when a car ploughed into a stationary cylinder-laden truck on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway in Faridpur at the end of the Eid-ul-Azha holiday.

On May 31, two workers died when a bus rammed into another bus standing still in Sylhet's Osmaninagar.

On May 5, a bus driver lost a leg and four passengers were injured when their bus hit a stationary cement truck in Gaibandha.

Police and transport sector insiders say rear-end collisions on the country's main highways are becoming more f...