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Pattern of craniofacial injuries and socio demographic distribution of road traffic accidents in Bangalore: Autopsy study.
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-152799
ABSTRACT

Background:

Among all types of accidents, those caused by motor vehicles claim the largest toll of life and tend to be most serious, road traffic accidents (RTA) continues to be growing menace incurring heavy loss of valuable man –power, along with corresponding drain of potential economic growth of country.

Objective:

Present study was taken up with the aim to assess the Socio demographic distribution of road traffic accidents and the pattern of craniofacial injuries occurred in RTA. Materials and

Methods:

A Descriptive Cross sectional study was conducted on the post mortems of RTA cases. Convenient purposive sampling technique was applied to select the sample of 113 road traffic accident autopsies.

Results:

Majority of the victims aged between 21 to 40 years (50.44%), most of the victims were males 104 (92.0%), and Hindus 102 (90.27%). More crashes 42 (37.17%) took place between 600 PM to 1200 PM on weekends 62 (54.87%) at city cross roads 62 (54.87%). Most of the accidents occurred by heavy motor vehicle 45(39.82%). Most of the times in road traffic accidents, productive age group males (21-40 years) were injured or lost their life. More than fifty per cent of the accidents were found to occur during the weekend evenings from 600PM to 1200PM.

Conclusion:

Since the road traffic traumas are worsening each year, to minimise the severity of injury, man's interaction with the motor car may have been somewhat modified by crash protection devices, such as helmets, seat belts and air bags.

Full text: Available Index: IMSEAR (South-East Asia) Type of study: Observational study Language: English Year: 2012 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: IMSEAR (South-East Asia) Type of study: Observational study Language: English Year: 2012 Type: Article