Mother slips onto road, crushed by van
A mother was thrown to her death after she accidentally slipped from the back seat of her son’s running motorbike and was crushed under the wheels of a covered van in
the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday.
The 55-year-old Masuda Begum was going to meet her brother in Gulshan-2 from her residence at Golapbagh in Jatrabari.
Mustafizur Rahman Mithun, the bike rider, told reporters at Dhaka Medical College Hospital that he had to start-and-stop his motorcycle frequently due to long tailback
on Pragati Sarani.
At one stage, Mithun let go of the clutch of his motorbike when he found some room in front of him amid the standing traffic at about 12:30pm. It gave the bike a big
jerk, causing his mother to be thrown off the bike.
“I immediately sensed that mother was no more on my back seat. I stopped my bike, turned around and saw a covered van passing over my mother,” said a sobbing Mithun,
younger son of Masuda.
“I became speechless for a moment seeing my mother’s bloodied body on the street,” he said, adding that she died on the spot.
On information, police rushed to the spot and took the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Long tailbacks are an everyday scene on Pragati Sarani as repair and maintenance works on the west side of the road have been going on for a long time, locals told
this correspondent.
Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station, told The Daily Star that police with the help of locals had seized the covered van and detained its driver
Ershadur Rahman.
-With The Daily Star input
