1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, J.J.M.Medical Collage, P.J. Extension, Davanagere
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, S.S.I.M.S & R.C, NH-4 Bypass Road, Davanagere
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine& Toxicology, Vinayaka mission, Salem, Tamil Nadu
Online published on 7 August, 2013.
Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is any vehicular accident occurring on the roadway this includes collision of an automobile with a pedestrian, another automobile or with a non-automobile on the roadway/fall from a moving vehicle causing injuries or death of involved individuals.
The objective is to describe injuries of road traffic deaths in Davangere, Karnataka, India. A crosssectional study includes road traffic accidents death during the period of 2009–2010. Those Patients who died in the J.J.M. Medical College, and subsequently postmortem examination conducted. Hundred cases of RTA deaths were included in the study. Deaths due to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world. Thereby it poses itself as a major epidemiological and medico legal problem. Victims in RTAs sustain large varieties of injuries, which are fatal or dangerous to life. The study of injuries associated with fatal outcome that helps in implementation of measures to prevent fatalities due to RTAs.
Fatal RTA, Types of Injury, Skull fracture, Cause of Death
