Study of pattern of injuries sustained in fatal road traffic accidents

Abstract

Aim: This study was conducted to examine the pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents (RTA) amongst the victims. Methodology: A study was undertaken at Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), to find out the types of injury patterns occurred due to the road traffic accidents. All Case histories and records, reports pertaining to road traffic accident victims were collected and analyzed to see different types of injury patterns sustained in the accident and data was compiled based on the findings with SPSS 20 software . Results: The study population consisted of 500 patients. Majority of them were males (84.25%) and belonged to the age group of 21 to 30 years with 25.31%. Majority of the patients had injury to Head neck and face constituting 53.61% and least had injury to the abdominal region constituting 9.14%. Abrasion was seen in most of the cases around 64.89% and Lacerations was the least found in 14.46%. Majority of the patients around 42.81% had skull and maxillofacial fracture and the least type of fracture observed was Ribs fracture observed in 4.79% of the cases.