Abstract
Road traffic accident is one of the leading causes of trauma, disabilities and deaths. Nearly 50 crore people are injured across the world every year of which more than 12 million turned into fatal. Amongst the various causes of road traffic accidents, rash driving is one of the major causes of accident which is substantiated by driving under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol not only inhibits self-control but impairs the judgment and visual acuity, affects safe driving that's why it is restricted all over the world. In this study, the person who were driving and injured in road traffic accidents, were investigated for epidemiological and clinico-pathological characteristics including causes/factors responsible for the accidents. All the victims were male above 15 years of the age and motorcyclists were the most (82.52%) injured. Fault of the driver was the commonest (53.39%) reason behind the accident and large number of them (23.30%) had consumed alcohol before driving. This was also confirmed by estimating concentration of alcohol in blood by Vitros Auto-analyzer.
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