en Epidemiology Original Article <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background:</strong> In recent decades, &lrm;due to the increase in users of roads and inadequate attention to the creation and development of appropriate passageways for traffic, there has been a growing trend in traffic accidents and casualties caused by them. The traffic accidents among pedestrians to take necessary measures in a timely fashion should be well studied. This study was conducted with the goal of survey traffic accidents among pedestrians in 2014.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> This cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the National Accidents Record Program &lrm;regarding 2013. In this study, all traffic accidents in which the injured person was referred to a public or private &lrm;hospital in the country to receive health services or was transferred to the hospital by EMS 115 and &lrm;received remedial measures on an outpatient or inpatient basis in all provinces were considered&lrm;. The incidence of pedestrian-vehicle accidents&lrm; was calculated per ten thousand. Map GIS software package was used for the mapping of occurrence of events and Microsoft EXCEL and Stata software were used for data analysis.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Results:</strong> In this study, the 82066 pedestrians who were injured in road accidents consisted of a total of 53240 men and 28826 women. The rate of traffic accidents was higher in men than in women (64.87% and 35.13%, respectively) and the majority of individuals affected were in the age group of 20 to 24 years. Most pedestrian-vehicle &lrm;accidents had occurred on the street (89.8%).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Pedestrians are at risk of the irreversible outcomes of traffic accidents; therefore, effective and regular training on the prevention of injury and secure environment is essential to reduce injuries.</span></p> Accidents, Traffic, Injury, Pedestrians 190 197 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-180-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 M Afshari afshari_m20@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011711 22400319475328460011711 Yes School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. Hamadan University of Medical Sciences S Khazaei khazai20@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011712 22400319475328460011712 No Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Deputy of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan M Mohammadian afsharimaryam86@gmail.com 22400319475328460011713 22400319475328460011713 No Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran. Gonabad University of Medical Sciences A Mohammadian Hafshejani Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences mahdimohamadi@yahoo.com 22400319475328460011714 22400319475328460011714 No Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences