Descriptive epidemiology of accidents in Yazd province in 1383

ABSTRACT

driving accidents are one of the most important problems which threaded the humans health. The role of motor vehicles accidents were changed from bottom of the causes of the death to top. Regarding to unexpected increasing of motor vehicles and high prevalence the death due to accidents in Yazd province, we designed this study with the aim of epidemiology of accidents in Yazd in 1383. This descriptive study carried out using available information in Yazd traffic police department. The results of this study showed that, the total number of accidents in Yazd were 8234 cases, which were divided in to three categories 66.1% of the accidents were known to be destruct then came accidents which led to injuries [29.9%] and the third category of accidents were those which led to death [3.9%]. Most of the drivers [32.2%] were between 18-2 4 years old and then [30.8%] were between 25 -3 4 years old. 92.5% of drivers were male and 7.5% was female. The cause of accidents [34.4%] were non-observance of the righ of priority, and [8.01%] was back ward moving, 4.1% was left and right deviation and 5.1% was un attention to logical interval. According to the results, only 3.1% of drivers had been used seatbelt and only 4.1% of motorcyclists had been used helmet. Regarding the results of this study, education of traffic principles and true driving to students and public, in addition to taking suitable policies for prevention of driving accidents is recommended