Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

Post Mortem Study for Distribution of Intracranial Haemorrhages in Fatal Road Traffic Accidents

1Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, C.U. Shah Medical College, Gujarat, India

2Professor, Pathology, C.U. Shah Medical College, Gujarat, India

3Professor, Forensic Medicine, C.U. Shah Medical College, Gujarat, India

Online published on 7 August, 2013.

Abstract

This study was conducted in Maulana Azad Medical college, New Delhi Mortuary among the 102 post mortem cases of road traffic accident victims over the period of three years from 2008–2011. Objective of this study was to find out distribution of intracranial haemorrhages in fatal road traffic accident. Most common type of haemorrhage was subarachnoid followed by subdural haemorrhage.

Keywords

Road Traffic Accident, Intracranial Haemorrhages, Post Mortem