en Health Health Debate Article Debate Article <p>  Iran has had incremental incidence of traffic accident mortality since introduction of mechanization about a century ago. But the newest data from Iran show decrease in the absolute number of deaths, death per 10,000 vehicles and death per 100, 000 populations. Despite its huge impact on health and economy, research in the field of traffic crashes is still scant and there are still deficiencies in problem oriented research on traffic accidents. Actual cooperation of policy makers, executive bodies and academician could build platform for intersectoral discussion of different aspects of traffic accidents and could reduce burden of traffic accidents. </p><p>  </p> Traffic accidents, Burden of Disease, Accident Mortality. 617 621 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-731&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Kamran B Lankarani Lankaran@sums.ac.ir 200319475328460013301 200319475328460013301 Yes Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Yaser Sarikhani yasersarikhani@yahoo.com 200319475328460013302 200319475328460013302 No Researcher, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Seyed Taghi Heydari heidaryt@sums.ac.ir 200319475328460013303 200319475328460013303 No Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Hasan Joulaie joulaei_h@yahoo.com 200319475328460013304 200319475328460013304 No Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Najmeh Maharlouei najmeh.maharlouei@gmail.com 200319475328460013305 200319475328460013305 No Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Payam Peimani peymani.payam@gmail.com 200319475328460013306 200319475328460013306 No Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Seyed Mehdi Ahmadi peymani.payam@gmail.com 200319475328460013307 200319475328460013307 No Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh ahmadi.nutrition@gmail.com 200319475328460013308 200319475328460013308 No Department of Public Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran. Hamid Soori hsoori@sbmu.ac.ir 200319475328460013309 200319475328460013309 No Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ali Davoudi-kiakalayeh davodi@gums.ac.ir 200319475328460013310 200319475328460013310 No Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. Gholamreza Masoumi Greza.masoumi@gmail.com 200319475328460013311 200319475328460013311 No Injury Control Research Center, Shohada-e-haft Tir hospital , Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.