Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Profile of Cases of Fatal Road Traffic Accident Autopsied with Respect to Type (Status) of Victim, Type of Vehicle used and Cause of Death in Rural India

  • Author:
  • Deepak Bhagwat1, B H Tirpude2, Sharjeel Khan1, P N Murkey2, I L Khandekar2, Pravin Zopate3, Ranjan Ambedkar1, Rahul Ramteke1
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 201 to 205

1Post Graduate Student, Dpt. of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha

2Professor, Dpt. of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha

3Assistant Professor, Dpt. of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha

Online published on 27 July, 2017.

Abstract

Road traffic accident is a complex phenomenon. Constant rise in the number of motor vehicles, rampant encroachment of road, easy to avail the vehicle because of loan facility, nasty tendency of violating traffic rules and anarchic traffic systems have greatly contributed to rapid increase in RTAs. Population explosion is a catalyzing factor for a number of accidents. The rise of road traffic accidents has become a major public health problem. RTAs cost a lot not only to the individuals affected and their families but also to the nation.

The present study was a cross-sectional study conducted in central India during 2 year period from 1June 2014 to 31May 2016. During the study period, a total of 757 medicolegal autopsies were conducted in this institute, out of which 109 cases of fatal road traffic accidents (died on spot or within 24 hours of accident) were studied. The purpose of the study was to know the age and sex wise distribution, diurnal variation and to correlate the above parameters with the cause of death.

Keywords

Fatal road traffic accident, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Motorvehicle, death