Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe the epidemiological behavior of the mortal lesions in a traffic accident occurred in Yara, Municipality, Cuba, in 2007. Method: The clinical, radiological and anatomical-pathological variables of mortal lesions in the traffic accident as a result of the collision between a train and a bus in Veguitas town, in Yara, municipality of Granma province, on October 6th, 2007. They were obtained from the clinical records by means of a statistical and non-inferential analysis.
Highlights
It is estimated that 50% of patients with encephalic traumatic injuries have been involved in traffic accidents. 63% of them are young adults, with ages from 15 and 24 years, and 34% are 1 to 4 year-old children
In the passengers transport on route Bayamo-Campechuela between 120 and 130 people were traveling one Saturday, on October 6th, 2007, short before noon, when the incident took place
Yara and Manzanillo municipalities had the majority of injured people evaluated by our Institution with 44%, 14 per capita, for a
Summary
It is estimated that 50% of patients with encephalic traumatic injuries have been involved in traffic accidents. 63% of them are young adults, with ages from 15 and 24 years, and 34% are 1 to 4 year-old children. The Office of Safety and Security from the Department of the Railroad Administration has named 5 categories of causes for train accidents, and the number of accidents per causes (some accidents had more than one cause): railway problems (506), lack of signaling (46), defective equipment (946), human factors (675), others (290) The victims of these type of accidents will frequently suffer from terrible lesions, such as broken bones, internal bleeding, lesions to internal organs, head and brain trauma, lesions to the spinal column, paralysis (paraplegia or quadriplegia), burns, amputations or dismemberment, scars and disfigurement, decapitation, and death [5,6,7,8,9]
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