At least 417 people were killed and 651 others injured in 402 road accidents across Bangladesh in September this year, according to a report of Jatri Kalyan Samity.
At the same time, 51 people were killed and 26 injured in 49 railway accidents.
Besides, 28 people were killed, four injured and three went missing in 16 waterway accidents
Some 496 people were killed and 681 injured in a total of 467 accidents on roads, railways and waterways.
Among the victims, 10 were members of law enforcement agencies, 143 drivers, 66 pedestrians, 60 transport workers, 65 students, eight teachers, 74 women and 44 children.
During the period the number of accidents involving motorcycles was the highest, the report showed.
Some 172 deaths and 107 injuries were reported in 153 motorcycle accidents which is 38.5% of total accidents, 42.78% of fatalities and 26.61% of injuries.
The information was given in a press release signed by Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, secretary general of the association.
The report was prepared by monitoring the news of road, rail and waterway accidents published in the national, local and online newspapers of the country.
According to the report, the highest number of road accidents occurred in Dhaka division in September. Some 118 people were killed and 112 injured in 114 road accidents in Dhaka.
In this month, the least number of road accidents reported in Sylhet division where at least 29 people were killed and 106 injured in 25 road accidents.
The analysis of the types of accidents demonstrated that 37.6% of the total accidents occurred in this month on national highways, 27.61% on regional roads, 29.10% on feeder roads.
The association identified several reasons behind most of the accidents.
Among them, dangerous overtaking, reckless speed, unfit vehicles, lack of footpaths or grabbed footpaths, sudden entrance of vehicles from feeder roads at railway crossings and highways, increasing number of small vehicles.
Besides, lack of service lanes on various national and regional highways, easy bikes, rickshaws, auto rickshaws coming down from various feeder roads on national and regional highways were the other reasons, it said.