title: Road traffic crashes in rural setting: an experience of a middle-income country.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To date, there has been little information published on the death of rural road accident deaths. This study uses burden of injury method to explore a more accurate estimate of years of life lost due to road traffic crashes occurring over a four-year period in Guilan province, northern Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  Rural road accident deaths from 2009 to 2013 were extracted from Iran's Forensic Medicine System, Death Registry System and Road Trauma Research center database.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the study period, the average years of life lost due to motor vehicle crashes was 13.8 per 1 000 persons, ranging from 11.9 during March 2011-2012 to 15.8 per 1 000 persons during March 2012-2013.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Road accident deaths in 2013 remained at the same high level as in 2009. The information obtained from this study provides a new perspective on fatal road traffic crash victims in rural settings and show us that more attention is needed in this area.
authors.affiliation: Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavagen 18A, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Davoudi-Kiakalayeh
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Shahrokh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yousefzade-Chabok
authors.forename: Sohiel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saadat
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007492:Iran; D012424:Rural Population