1Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India.
2Department of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India.
Various studies have shown that the incidence of vehicular accidents is more among the drunken drivers. This study was done to study the incidence of alcohol use in RTA in South Delhi in fatal cases. Totally 500 cases were studied whose blood samples were screened for alcohol by cavett test and then quantified by Gas liquid chromatography. Totally 170 cases (34%) were positive for alcohol and the mean BAC was 196.9 mg%. The maximum cases i.e. 38.2% (65) belonged to the age group of 20–30 years. The highest number of victims were pedestrians i.e. 39% (66) and only 2.9% (5 cases) belonged to female.
Fatal accident, alcohol, chromatography, pedestrian
