NCRI – The state coroner office in Iran has said in a report that 12,751 people have lost their lives in traffic accidents in the first nine months of in the Iranian calendar year that began on March 20.
In a report on Tuesday January 24, the state-run IRNA news agency has cited the organization as announcing that 263,904 people have also been injured during the same period.
According to the report, 1140 people were killed and 26,370 people were injured in just one month in the same period.
These figures point to quite a disaster in Iran.
The number of traffic deaths in Iran is 25 times that of Japan and two times compared to Turkey.
The number of traffic accidents in England is 322 times less than that of Iran, despite the fact that there are three times more vehicles in England compared to Iran.
In Netherlands with a 17-million population, the annual number of traffic deaths is only 200, whereas this figure is nearly 20,000 in Iran.
So, we see that compared to Iran, there are much less traffic accidents in countries with several times more vehicles on the roads.
There are three factors contributing to traffic accidents, namely human, road and vehicle. But Iranian regime’s officials have always attempted to highlight the human factor so as to put the blame on people.
According to scientific studies, Iran’s high number of traffic deaths is due to poor road conditions, so that 73.8 percent of fatal accidents have happened due to narrow roads. According to regime’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, “too little investment has been done in country’s road maintenance so that today, 40 percent of country’s roads are in poor conditions.”
Another factor in traffic accidents is the vehicle. Poverty has forced people to turn to old, worn-out cars which raises the rate of accidents. On the other hand, domestic automakers produce very low-quality vehicles, so that the Pride vehicle, for instance has been involved in 24 percent of car accidents.
Ranked 189 among 190 countries in road accidents, indicates a growing disaster, of which only people pay the price.