Tehran Times Christoph Hamelmann, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Iran, said that WHO will highly support Irans efforts on reducing road fatalities. Hamelmann made the remarks on the sidelines of the 24th International Conference on Safe Communities held in Tabriz on August 22-25. One of key areas being discussed in the conference ...

Tehran Times - Traffic related accidents brought heavy economic burden amounting to 20 trillion rials (about $480 million) for the country in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), Tehran traffic police chief Teymour Hosseini has said. Road crashes and casualties annually constitute about 5 percent of the countrys gross domestic product,...

APA - Fifty people have been killed and 400 more injured in traffic accidents in Iran in the past two days. The police launched a large-scale operation to reduce the number of accidents on holidays in connection with the Novruz holiday, APA's Tehran bureau reports. Irans Traffic Police Muhammad Hussein Hamidi the traffic accidents occurred due ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A total of six people were burned to death in a traffic accident that occurred in southernIranon Monday, the official IRNA news agency reported. Two cars clashed on Firouzabad-Qiroukarzin road in Iran's southern province of Fars and both of them caught fire, Enayatollah Salehi, a local traffic police officer,...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- 12 Iranians were killed in two separate traffic accidents in northern Iran on Thursday, the official IRNA news agency reported. Deputy chief of traffic police of Qazvin province, Bahram Zeinali, told IRNA that in one of the accidents, a car hit eight people in Qazvin-Zanjan highway and all of them died. Another ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- , the state IRIB TV website reported. Four cars crashed on Shiraz-Marvdasht road in Iran's southern Fars province, in which 10 people were killed and 16 others were injured, traffic police chief of the province colonel Ahmadi was quoted as saying. The cause of the incident is being investigated, said Ahmadi....