1Professor& Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, MGM Medical College, Kishanganj, Bihar, India
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, MGM Medical College, Kishanganj, Bihar, India
3Resident, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Associate Professor& Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author-Navin Kumar Assistant Professor Dept. of Forensic Medicine, MGM Medical College, Kishanganj (Bihar), India, PIN-855107 Email: navin2898@gmail.com, Mobile: +919648908777
Online published on 8 January, 2016.
This study was conducted in mortuary of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi where 100 fatal Road Traffic Injury cases over a period of three years from 2012–2015. Pattern of distribution of head injury cases in fatal road traffic accidents were analyzed in detail during post mortem. In skeletal fractures overall fractures of whole calvaria + facial skeleton were the commonest, followed by temporo-parietal fractures. Subdural hemorrhage was the most common affliction of meninges.
Road Traffic Accidents, Fatal, Head Injury, Post Mortem, Subdural hemorrhage
