Causes and Influencing Factors of Road Traffic Accidents Treated at Nri General Hospital, AP

The word accident has been defined as an occurrence in the sequence of events which usually produce an unintended injury, death and property damage. Out of all types of accidents, those caused by motor vehicles claim the largest toll of life and tend to be serious in nature. Death and disability due to road traffic injuries affect all age groups but the most affected are those in the young and productive years of their life. It is estimated that road traffic injuries will make up in the rankings of leading causes of death from 10^th in 2004 t0 5^th in 2030^. The present study was conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine, NRI Medical College, Chinakakani, from April 2013 to March 2014. The factors taken to enumerate the study are the incidence of deaths time of accident, place of accident, area of accident, status of victim, distribution of offending vehicles and showing delay in hours in transport of RTA victim.