At least 40 people, including 38 students, were killed when a pick-up truck carrying them veered off the road and plunged into a roadside ditch at Mayani area of Mirsharai Upazila in Bangladesh on July 11, 2011. This is the largest number of students killed in a single incident in the history of Bangladesh since independence in 1971. The local administration initially announced the number of death toll as 43, but corrected it as 40 later. The truck driver was reportedly running the vehicle recklessly and talking over a mobile phone just before the accident.