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 (ISNA,
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.
The funeral procession of the students killed in the bus accident. 20
October 2012. (Mehr News Agency/Aminollah Akbari)
