Study Of Road Traffic Accidental Deaths (RTA) In and Around Valsad (Gujarat).

ABSTRACT

Accidents are now one of the major causes of death. Present study consists of 439 medico legal post mortems performed in Forensic Medicine Department, GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Valsad, Gujarat during the period of last 2 calendar years (1st January. 2012 to 31st December. 2013). Out of them, 90.66% cases were of unnatural deaths. Out of unnatural death we found 146 cases (36.68%) died in road traffic accidents. In 36.98% cases were age group of 21- 30 years. 44.83% accidents occur in time period of 12- 18 hours. Thus all data including type of vehicle involved, head injuries, regional injuries,type of skull fracture in head injury, type of haemorrhage and how long victim survived.