Iranian Road Death Fatalities Continue Upward Trajectory

Data released by the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization reveal 7,500 people lost their lives in road mishaps in five months ending Aug. 22. 
The death rate is 1% higher, compared with the corresponding period of last year. 
In the fiscal 2018-19, the national road death toll hit 17,183, showing a 1.2% rise year-on-year. 
A comparative look at LMO charts shows that during the first five months of the current fiscal year, 7,561 people lost their lives in road accidents nationwide, which was 7,489 in the same period of last year.
Infamous for the high road death rate, Fars tops the provinces with 612 deaths, followed by Khorasan Razavi at 543 and Tehran with 542 deaths.