Traffic Collision in Sistan and Baluchestan Leaves Six Dead and Seven Injured
Following a three-vehicle collision on the Khash to Zahedan road on Thursday evening, February 21, six people were killed and seven others were injured.
According to Jalal Hashemzahi, head of the Red Crescent Society in Khash, the accident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday on the Khash to Zahedan highway.
No information has been released about the causes of the accident so far, but Mr. Hashemzahi, referring to fatal traffic accidents on the two-way Dajnang route and the transit corridor from Khash to Zahedan, has called for “measures to be taken to rehabilitate or remedy the hazardous conditions on this route.”
On the third day of Farvardin this year, a collision involving three vehicles on the Zahedan to Khash route resulted in 14 deaths and 9 injuries.
Iran’s traffic police cite human factors, road defects, and vehicle malfunctions as the most important causes of road fatalities in the country, respectively.
According to the announcement by the country’s Legal Medicine Organization in mid-December this year, the number of deaths from traffic accidents in the first seven months of this year was 10,087, with 2,477 of them in urban accidents and 6,966 in road accidents.
Iran is one of the deadliest countries in the region for traffic accidents. Iran’s highest number of road traffic fatalities in the past two decades was in 2005 with 27,000 deaths that year. According to an official estimate, on average between 2011 and 2019, more than 17,000 people died on Iran’s roads annually.
Source: Radio Farda
