Road accidents of West Azerbaijan province and its related reasons

High number of the deaths caused by the road accidents in Iran and financial and economical loss caused by it is one of the important issues of the society and finding an effective solution for it is very indispensible. As the behavior caused by the conceptions of the people is rooted in the beliefs and norms of the members of the society, these behaviors can be treated by acculturating along with the improvement of following the rules and internalizing the security culture which also termed as prioritizing the security and these all lead to the decrease of the traffic problems and the subsequent incidents. For this purpose, the most important point is to know the effective factors on the security and improving its culture so that the right traffic behavior can be improved at last. Because of its special position and location which is influenced by different cultures, most of the road accidents occur in West Azerbaijan. In this article, two dimensions of road issues and problems and also the effects of cultural activities to decrease the accidents were discussed and the effective prioritization was taken into account and using a descriptive method, it was tried to state the problem. The results of the survey state that by the increase in any of the factors, the improvement in the security in the traffic and the culture of the security are affected