A senior Iranian traffic police official says 325 people have so far lost their lives in road accidents during New Year trips across Iran since mid-March. General Kamal Hadianfar said the fatalities happened in 267 accidents recorded so far on the roads countrywide. As many as 7,000 people have also sustained injuries, he said. He ...

Iran Human Rights Monitor - Iranian Legal Medicine Organization announced that 12,261 people were killed in car accidents in the first eight months of Persian year beginning since March 21, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on January 5. This includes 9,587 men and 2,674 women. The figure increased 0.9% compared to last year (1396). The number ...

AP Iranian media is reporting that at least 14 people have died in a road accident after a bus fell into a valley near the capital Tehran. The reports quoted the head of the countrys emergency medical services, Pirhossein Koulivand, as saying that the accident took place in the Savadkouh area as the bus was on the road from Tehran to Gonbad-e Kavus,...

Al-Monitor- Most countries around the world ring in the new year Jan. 1. Iranians, however, celebrate their new year, known as Nowruz, on the first day of spring. This is followed by a 13-day holiday, which this year began March 21 and ended April 2. The holiday may last as long as 20 days for some, as it is not rare for Iranians to begin their break ...

Iranian media are reporting that 11 Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims have been killed after a bus overturned in western Iran. Iran's state television quoted provincial road traffic police chief Colonel Mahdi Shakeri as saying 10 women and a man were killed in the September 6 accident in the western province of Hamadan. Twenty-four other people were reported ...

Irans Coroners Office has released a report indicating 7,489 people were killed in road accidents in the past five months. IRNA reports that this number indicates a 8.2-percent decline compared to the same period last year.I Iran has one of the worlds highest rates of death by road accidents. The statistics reveal that Fars, Khorasan and Tehran are ...

The Iranian coroners office says 6,455 people have been killed in road accidents over the past five years during the holidays around Norooz, the Iranian New Year that begins on March 21. The Tasnim News Agency reports that the fatalities peaked during the 2010 Norooz holidays, with 1,391 people killed in road accidents. The statistics refer to ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 15 (MNA) Peoples unequal war with the roads in Iran has taken many tolls including 14,375 dead and 253,624 wounded in the first nine months of the year. Shahram Jabbari Zadegan, a City Planning expert told Mehr News that since March 2013, every 27 minutes, one had died in road accidents and every 1 minute, one had been injured. The ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) The head of city traffic police has detailed about a school mini-bus head-on collision in Qom. Col. Mohsen Mehraei told Mehr News that today morning a mini-bus carrying female students of a high school in Jamkaran-Qom road had overturned, killing one student and injuring four others, which had been taken to hospital. The ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (MNA) An official at the Iranian Health Ministry says the number of people killed in road accidents across the country annually equals the number of people who perished in the devastating earthquake that hit the city of Bam in southeastern Iran in December 2003. The Bam earthquake killed about 23,000 people. Every year road accidents ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A road accident in Iran has killed 18 people after a truck smuggling fuel slammed into a sedan packed with Afghans who were being brought illegally into the country. The semiofficial Fars news agency says the crash took place on Friday morning on the outskirts of the town of Rigan in southeastern Iran. Fifteen of the dead were ...

More than 270,000 Iranians have been killed in road accidents, according to recent official statistics. The Mehr News Agency reports that, according to the statistics, in the first eight months of the current Iranian year, 14,000 people were killed in road accidents. The highest number of road deaths happened in 2005 with 27,759 deaths. Iran's ...