Increase in traffic accidents in Iran; more than 8,600 deaths in the first six months of this year
The Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization reported an increase in the number of deaths from traffic accidents in the first half of this year, announcing that an average of 46.5 people lost their lives daily during this period.
According to ILNA news agency, in the first half of this year, 8,644 people lost their lives in traffic accidents, a 9.6 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
According to this report, Fars, Tehran, and Khorasan Razavi provinces had the highest number of traffic accident fatalities, with 687, 582, and 576 deaths, respectively.
The report also pointed to the increase in the number of accident victims visiting forensic centers in the first half of this year, stating that after the conflict, accident victims accounted for the largest number of visits to this organization, with an increase of 9.1 percent.
Road accident fatalities in Iran are higher than in many other countries, and sometimes leave behind more well-known victims.
In early July of this year, two journalists, Mahshad Karimi and Reyhaneh Yasini, were killed and 21 others were injured when a bus carrying journalists overturned in the "Begum Qale" area of Piranshahr.
A day after the journalists' bus overturned, a bus carrying conscripts on the Yazd-Dehshir highway killed seven people. The police stated that the cause of the accident was "a defect in the technical braking system of the bus and the driver's inability to control the bus."
In early September, the director of Bam's Accidents and Medical Emergencies Department announced that a car carrying Afghan nationals overturned in Bam city, killing three people at the scene and injuring nine others.
Just one day after publishing news of a vehicle carrying Afghan nationals overturning in Bam city, the Iranian Students News Agency reported on Thursday, September 1, that a minibus overturned in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province of Iran, and wrote that 16 people were killed and 12 others were injured in the incident.
Road accidents are one of the major causes of death in Iran, and according to published reports, the main causes of road accidents include road damage, vehicle wear and tear, and failure to comply with driving laws and their monitoring.
