An Analysis of the Factors Bringing about Inner-city Acciddents

Nowadays, inner-city accidents are regarded as a world-wide social problem which can lead to abundant life and financial losses each year. Considering the damages caused by accidents, our country is introduced as the one with high accidents. The current study is after identifying and analyzing the reasons of accidents within Urmia in years 91 and 92. The research method used in the present study was descriptive-analytical and the population was composed of all the accidents occurring in Urmia during 91 and 92.The results showed that the highest number of accidents which cause damage, in the age range of 26-35, has been because of violation of priority and lack of attention to the front. Furthermore, region 1 of the city was found to have the highest number of accidents and region 4 to be the busiest part of the city. Also, considering accident severity index in both years, region 1 had the highest accident severity coefficient among all city regions.