Tehran, September 12: In the past two days, 209 traffic accidents on roads and highways throughout Iran have claimed 56 lives and left 275 injured, police say.
“56 people have been killed and 275 others injured in road accidents across the country on Thursday and Friday,” head of Traffic Control Department, Colonel Hossein Alishahi, said on Saturday.
“Out of the country’s 209 car crashes 73 , were cases in which the cars flipped over,” he added.
Alishahi further pointed out that on Thursday, 35 people were killed and 170 injured in 125 traffic accidents.
“16 Pakistani nationals lost their lives and 16 others were injured when a truck ran off a bridge onn a highway in northwest Iran on Thursday,” he explained.
Local Police Chief Ali-Reza Qasemi said that the driver was responsible for the accident, which took place around 1:00 am local time.
According to Alishahi, failing to comply with double white lines and disobeying basic driving rules are some of the reasons for road accidents in Iran.
The traffic police officer believes that obeying traffic rules should become part of the culture in order to reduce the number of road disasters.
—–Agencies