Classification, age estimation and cause of injuries among non fatal road traffic accident cases in a tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Classification, dating and causative factors of an injury both in living and in dead is of crucial medico-legal issue in the field of crime investigation to fix the responsibility. The paper brings forth the most common pattern of injuries in Road Traffic Accidents, the most common causative agents and the age of injury when the patient reports for medicolegal examination at the casualty oftertiary care hospital