A passenger bus overturned on the Izeh-Lordegan road in southwestern
Iran on Friday killing 26 female high school students, with 18 others seriously
injured.
“Travelling at excess speeds on slippery roads was the cause of this
accident," Col. Samad Esfandiari, a highway patrol official, said (ISNA,
20 October)
Road traffic accidents kill nearly 28,000 people and injure or disable
300,000 people a year in Iran, a country of 75 million people, according to
statistics from UNICEF; a rate 20 times higher than the world average.
The funeral procession of the students killed in the bus accident. 20
October 2012. (Mehr News Agency/Aminollah Akbari)
3 comments:
FAULTY FIGURES!
it seems UNISEF does not get its figures right!.MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE SOUTH AFRICA LEADS THE WORLD IN ROAD ACCIDENTS AND NIGERIA IN TRAFFIC NEGLIGENCE.KENYA WAS TRAILING SOMEWHERE AT NO.SIX BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF 'MICHUKI RULES THAT REDUCED ROAD CARNAGE drastically IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY TO ABOUT 80 per cent.just which entity should we trust in giving us truthful figures and statistics in road accidents ?
B.M.A.,
The UNICEF statistics on road safety in countries are based on reports from the national governments. Here UNICEF is saying that the rate of accident fatalities on Iranian roads is 20 times higher than the world average. It does not compare Iran’s rate with South Africa as you suggest, and does not say the rate is the highest in the world. Why do you object, and express so much anger by your capital letters, to such simple statement that the rate is 20 times higher than the world average? What is the correct rate, if you have any other info? And why do you feel obliged to spin the bad news away from the Islamic Republic, even if the news is on road accidents?
Probably Iran needs to study the Kenyan experience as you have referred to.
Anywhere you go in any country, accident lawyer Suffolk county and all lawyers who will handle this case will say that it is the driver's fault. Driving in excess of their speed limit then adding the wet slippery road will become the perfect ingredients for disaster.
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