Fatal burn injuries in accidental vehicular crush a medicolegal study.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
Vehicle explosions result deadly fires which causes loss of many lives. This study explores the way of identification of sixteen fatal burnt bodies following a vehicular crush where identification was so difficult because of incineration of few cases. The victims were mainly of lower socio-economic, under graduate, bachelor group and businessmen by profession. The common age group was 21-30 years with a male and female ratio 91. Urban was the place of incidents and that too at 10 pm at night in the month of December with heavy truck as offending vehicle was the classical features of this study. From the observations and analysis of the incident with due consideration of environmental factors, vehicular conditions like operation of old ill maintained vehicles in high speed in a restricted area, in coordinated functioning of various traffic control agencies at night etc, certain aetiologies are elicited and their preventive measures are suggested.
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Índice:
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Assunto principal:
Fatores Socioeconômicos
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Automóveis
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Queimaduras
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
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Acidentes de Trânsito
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Evolução Fatal
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Antropologia Forense
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Veículos Automotores
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo prognóstico
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
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