Letter to the Editor

The report by Naghavi et al. entitled ‘Adverse Health Outcomes of Road Traffic Injuries in Iran after Rapid Motorization’ in your May 2009 issue of Archives of Iranian Medicine (AIM) discusses the increasing rate of deaths and injuries following road traffic accidents (RTAs) in Iran.1 The authors have tried to implicate the poor quality and lowsafety standards of the cars and motorcycles manufactured in Iran as well as the low price of petrol and the decreasing ratio of travel by public transportation as compared with privately owned cars as the main causes for this increasing rate of death and disability from RTAs in Iran.