Abstract
According to statistics, road transportation is the most dangerous means of transportation and also the costliest in terms of human lives and material damage. The increase of road safety is a priority goal of the European Commission and an area of high interest for Romania, which is unfortunately placed very high in the hierarchy of countries with a high number of deaths resulting from road accidents. This study presents the mechanisms of the generation of traumatic injuries and also analyses the manner of interpreting these mechanisms in the case of road accidents, both from the perspective of law enforcement and from the perspective of specialists in road transportation, who analyse and investigate road accidents from a technical point of view. Determining the lesional mechanisms helps to better understand the real image of the conditions of an accident’s occurrence, in order to clearly illustrate the elements mentioned in the forensic accident site report and to complement all other means to gather information at that site.
Highlights
The increase of road safety is a priority goal of the European Commission and an area of high interest for Romania, which is placed very high in the hierarchy of countries with a high number of deaths resulting from road accidents
This study presents the mechanisms of the generation of traumatic injuries and analyses the manner of interpreting these mechanisms in the case of road accidents, both from the perspective of law enforcement and from the perspective of specialists in road transportation, who analyse and investigate road accidents from a technical point of view
The increase in the volume of road traffic worldwide, has led to road safety becoming a major problem that has to be addressed in every country
Summary
The increase in the volume of road traffic worldwide, has led to road safety becoming a major problem that has to be addressed in every country. Road accidents impact the jobs, health or even life of those involved, so road accidents can be viewed as work accidents and risks related to road safety can be assessed using a methodology similar to that used for determining the risks at the workplace [1] Innovations in areas such as renewable fuel sources [2, 3], safer driving systems or road infrastructure can help to reduce the risk of road accidents, but it is important for all participants in road traffic to understand the manner in which road accidents occur and what their consequences are. These can be important elements since, in some cases, the traumatic injuries determined through medical legal examination, even of masked as a traumatism caused by road accidents, can suggest other ways and circumstances for the event’s occurence
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