en Epidemiology Original Article <strong>Background</strong>: <strong>Traffic accident injuries are a major public health problem. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of traffic accidents leading to injuries or deaths and its related risk factors in Yazd city, Centre of Iran.</strong><br> <strong>Materials and Method</strong>: <strong>In this retrospective study, traffic accidents information recorded by the traffic police of Yazd city during 2016-2018 were used. The data were described using mean, standard deviation, frequency and frequency percentage indices and also independent sample t-test, chi-square and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. All analyses were conducted in SPSS 20 software with a significance level of 0.05.</strong><br> <strong>Result:</strong> <strong>The total number of people involved in these accidents were 2082 people, including 25 (1.2%) cyclists, 624 (30%) motorcyclists, 183 (8.8%) pedestrians, 321 (15.4%) passengers, and 929 (44.6%) vehicle drivers. Accidents were associated with 1) Types of involved vehicles (light vehicles-58%), 2) Occurrence time (4-8 p.m.-28.9%), 3) Age of drivers (16 to 30 years old-41.1%), 4) Education (diploma and high school-60.1%), and 5) Gender (males-82.2%). The victims of traffic accidents are mostly males and young people.</strong><br> <strong>Conclusion: </strong><strong>Therefore, preventive measures and targeted interventions should be considered to reduce the risk of being involved in crashes. </strong> Traffic Accidents,Mortality,Injury,Vehicles, 231 238 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-445-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohammad Taghi Ghaneian mtghaneian@gmail.com 22400319475328460011340 22400319475328460011340 No Professor, Dept. of Human Ecology, Environmental Science and Technology Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Azam Tarfiei tarfieiaz@gmail.com 22400319475328460011341 22400319475328460011341 Yes MSc Student in Human Ecology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Mohammad Hasan Ehrampoush ehrampoush@ssu.ac.ir 22400319475328460011342 22400319475328460011342 No Professor, Dept. of Human Ecology, Environmental Science and Technology Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Mohammad Hasan Lotfi mhlotfi56359@gmail.com 22400319475328460011343 22400319475328460011343 No Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Health Faculty, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Mahdieh Namayandeh Drnamayandeh@ssu.ac.ir 22400319475328460011344 22400319475328460011344 No Associated Prof., Dept. of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center of Health Care Data Modeling, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences Ali Reza Adamizadeh alirezaadam54@gmail.com 22400319475328460011345 22400319475328460011345 No MSc in Traffic Management, Head of Traffic Education and Culture Department, Yazd, Iran. Head of Traffic Education and Culture Department Naeimeh Keyghobdy naeimeh.keyghobady@gmail.com 22400319475328460011346 22400319475328460011346 No MSc in Epidemiology, Dept. of Biostatistics Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences