Exclusive: Traffic accidents kill over 80 in just 3 months in Kurdistan Region

Kurdistan 03:17 PM - 2022-05-10

The General Traffic Directorate of Kurdistan Region announced the outcome of traffic accidents in the Region during the first three months of 2022.

Brigadier General Asaad Mala Karim, the spokesman for Traffic Directorate, told PUKmedia on Tuesday that the Kurdistan Region witnessed 862 traffic accidents during the first three months of the year, which led to the death of 82 people and the injury of 1,478 others.

According to Karim, the statistics are divided as follows:

Erbil/ 195 accidents, killing 20 people and injuring 164 others

Slemani/ 225 accidents, killing 25 people and injuring 739 others

Duhok/ 222 accidents, killing 116 people and injuring 299 others

Halabja/ 19 accidents, killing one person and injuring 16 others

Soran Administration/ 57 accidents, killing 4 people and injuring 46 others

Garmian Administration/ 85 accidents, killing 12 people and injuring 129 others

Raparin Administration/ 59 accidents, killing 4 people and injuring 85 others

Car accidents are a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region in comparison to many countries. Many blame bad roads and others blame lack of compliance with traffic laws.

A 26 year-old Kurdish-Iranian truck driver died on Tuesday on the Penjwen-Said Sadiq road after his truck overturned on Milak Mountain.

According to previous statistics, over 600 people were killed and 7,121 people were injured in 4,119 traffic accidents across the Kurdistan Region in 2021, with more than seven thousand injured.

A 2018 report by World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that road traffic injuries were the leading killer of people aged five to 29 globally, with an estimated rate of traffic fatalities per 100,00 population in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of 20.7% in 2016.

 

 

PUKmedia