At least 487 people were killed and 1,194 more injured in 559 road crashes in the country in January, said a Road Safety Foundation report published on Thursday.

Most of the deaths occurred in accidents involving motorcycles, the report also said, mentioning that 40.24 per cent or 196 people, died in 37.2 per cent or 298, motorcycle-related accidents.

The train was involved in the next highest number of deaths—32 people—with 17 more injured in 41 accidents.

Six people were killed and seven more were injured in four waterway accidents.

The report was prepared based on reports published in nine national dailies, seven online news portals, different electronic media and its own sources.

Of those killed, 132 were pedestrians, 77 were passengers of three-wheelers, 67 were drivers and their assistants of different motor vehicles, 28 were illegal passengers of trucks, pickup vans, tractors and trolleys, 21 were bus passengers, nine were passengers and drivers of cars, microbuses, jeeps and ambulances, 13 were passengers and transport workers of locally modified vehicles such as nasimon, karimon, bhatbhati, tomtom and mahindra, and 11 were passengers and pullers of rickshaws, rickshaw vans and bicycles.

Of those killed in January, 57 were children.