Associate Professors, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Hospital, Tumkur
Online published on 2 July, 2013.
Drawing a public attention and awareness towards casualties is important to prevent unnatural deaths; this possibly could reduce the incidence of such cases. This is a retrospective study (3 years & 11 months) conducted to understand the magnitude & pattern of medicolegal cases in this region of the state.
In this study revealed that road traffic accidents (64.6%) constituted the majority of medicolegal cases out of 1300, followed by assault and poisoning (10.3% and 8.4% respectively). Male predominance is quite evident. The affected age group is 21–30 years (30.5%) followed by 31–40 years and were more prone to such casualties
Medicolegal case, Injury, RTA, Fall from height, Poisoning
