Iran’s road safety is improving, but slowl

Iran’s road safety record has been poor for many years, with the country amongst the worst in the world for fatality levels/head of population. However in recent years a general improvement has been seen with a reduction in the overall death toll from crashes.
June 2, 2017 Read time: 1 min

Iran’s road safety record has been poor for many years, with the country amongst the worst in the world for fatality levels/head of population.

However in recent years a general improvement has been seen with a reduction in the overall death toll from crashes. In 2016 the country’s road fatality rate at 15,932 was 3.9% lower than for 2015.

The introduction of traffic cameras has helped in lowering the crash rate in key urban areas. Data shows that 65% of Iran’s road crashes are in urban areas so the use of traffic cameras is expected to make further reductions in the annual road death toll.

With 300,000 also being seriously injured/year, Iran desperately needs to reduce the rate of road crashes on its network.

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