With Covid Curbing Travel, Road Death Toll Declines

Iran’s road accident death rate has declined by almost 16%, as Covid-19 has curbed land-based travel. 
Data released by the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization reveal that 7,891 people lost their lives in road accidents in the six months ending Sept. 21. 
The road-related death rate has declined by 15.7% compared with the corresponding period of last year, during which 9,357 people died in road accidents. 
According to the report, men account for 6,446 fatalities and the remaining 1,445 cases were women. 
A comparative look at LMO’s charts shows that the capital city of Tehran tops the provinces with 597 traffic-related deaths, followed by Fars Province with 585 and Khorasan Razavi with 517 deaths. 
A closer look at the numbers shows the road fatality rate in Tehran was down 8.9% compared with the period of last year, which dropped from 655 to 597. 
Similarly, figures in Fars show a 21.3% decline, from 743 road deaths reported last year to 585 in the current year. The death rate in Khorasan Razavi registered a 24.2% decline, from 682 a year ago to 517 this year.
Ilam, Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad and Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari provinces had the lowest fatality rates with 51, 93 and 114 deaths respectively in the first half of the current year.