1Senior Resident, Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
2Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
3Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
4Professor, Department of Medical Biometrics and Informatics, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
5Junior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India
*Corresponding author: Manigandan G, Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India. Contact no: +91 7598566989, Email: dr.manigandan86@gmail.com
Online published on 5 January, 2015.
In India motor vehicle population is growing at a faster rate than the economic and population growth. This study was conducted from November 2011 to april 2013 at JIPMER, Puducherry. In this study there were 268 deaths due to road traffic accidents with head injury in a period of 18 months (November 2011 to April 2013). Males outnumbered females (81.71% vs 18.28%) with a ratio of 4.5 to 1. Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) are more commonly seen in the age group of 31–45 years followed by 16–30 years. The major culprits are the two wheelers which amount to 198 vehicles (53.08%). In our study the number of pedestrian involved in accidents is 89 (33.20%) and the motor cyclists are 97 (36.19%). Frontal (51 cases; 28.33%) and occipital (50 cases; 27.77%) parts of the skull are more commonly fractured. In basal skull fractures posterior cranial fossa (PCF, 36 cases; 26.66%) and middle cranial fossa (MCF, 35 cases; 25.92%) are more commonly fractured. The most common type of haemorrhage is the combination of subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage 134 cases (54.69%).
Road Traffic Accidents, Pedestrians, Fissure Fracture, Subdural and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
