Staged Car Accident; Reasons and Motivations

This study was conducted in Mashhad city in 2023 in order to discover and understand the motivations, causes and reasons for staged car accident and drawing its social contexts based on the lived experience of actors in this field.

The samples (people with a history of staged car accident at least once) were selected purposefully and the data were collected through the direct narrative interview technique with the actors and analyzed using the qualitative method of thematic analysis. 

Among the descriptive findings, indicators such as being a male, being between the ages of 28 and 50, being a migrant are common characteristics of actors, and happening in the middle of the night and lonely roads and dangerous highways are common characteristics of the action of staged car accident. From the theme analysis, we found seven main themes, which are : “Migration”, “Differential bonding and reinforcement”, “Disordered extended family”, “Economic instability”, “Deprivation trap”, “Perception of social inequality”, and “Element of excitement in carnival life”.

Staged car accident is a phenomenon that is most related to economic issues or other branches of it, such as inequality and poverty, and the most important motive for staged car accident is to receive blood money and solve financial problems.