Iran - 26 school girls killed and 18 wounded in bus crash.(TA).A passenger bus overturned on the Izeh-Lordegan road in southwestern Iran on Friday killing 26 female high school students, with 18 others seriously injured. “Travelling at excess speeds on slippery roads was the cause of this accident," Col. Samad Esfandiari, a highway patrol official, said 9ISNA, 20 October) .
Road traffic accidents kill nearly 28,000 people and injure or disable 300,000 people a year in Iran, a country of 75 million people, according to statistics from UNICEF, a rate 20 times higher than the world average.
- Iran pop 78,868,711 ; number of cars : 1,648,505.
- Canada pop: 34,950,000 ; number of cars: 2,134,893. The most recent statistics reveal that there were 8.7 per cent fewer deaths in 2009 than in the year before. The latest numbers show that in 2009 there were 2,209 road user fatalities.Number of injured or disabled 123,192 .
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