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Forensics: Iran ranked 189th amongst 190 countries in road accidents

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Forensics: Iran ranked 189th amongst 190 countries in road accidents

97,272 people have lost their lives in road accidents in Iran between the years of 2010 to 2014, the regime’s Forensics Organization said in a report on Thursday, August 20th. From 190 countries Iran is ranked 189th in road accidents and only the country of Sierra Leone has conditions worse than Iran.

 

 

The average number of road accident deaths (at least 20,000 deaths a year), along with an average of 250,000 people left injured in these incidents equals the number of people killed and injured in a major earthquake, the report says. Furthermore, this number of casualties in the country’s roads each year equal the number of deaths in an all-out war and Iran is suffering 320 billion rials in damages each day (equal to around $9.2 million).

 

 

The World Bank has classified Iran’s roads being in ‘critical’ conditions.

 

 

Experts say in 2014 nearly 156,000 road accidents were registered in Iran, while one third ere due to poor road conditions.