, Feb. 1 -- Road safety campaigners on Sunday urged major political parties to include a clear commitment to enact a separate and comprehensive Road Safety Law in their election manifestos ahead of the 13th national parliamentary election.

The call came at a press conference organised by Road Safety Coalition Bangladesh at Dhaka Reporters Unity.

They said the existing legal framework is inadequate to curb the country's growing number of road crash deaths.

Road safety expert M Khalid Mahmud read out a written statement at the press conference.

Speakers recalled that Bangladesh's first transport-related law, the Motor Vehicles Ordinance of 1983, lacked essential road safety provisions, resulting in long-standing legal and enforcement ga...