The Evaluation of Traffic Accident Deaths in Corum Province

Abstract

Injuries and deaths related to traffic accidents play an important role in daily works of forensic medicine. For this reason, forensic experts need to have enough knowledge about the deaths caused by traffic accidents. Autopsy and dead examinations were retrospectively evaluated in patients who died due to traffic accidents in a 5 years period between 01.01.2005 and 31.12.2009 in the province of Corum. Cases were evaluated according to their age, sex, cause of death, and death place. It was emphasized to detect the socio-demographic characteristics of the patients who died as a result of traffic accidents and compared with similar studies in the literature. There were 141 cases traffic accident deaths, 98(%69.5) were male and 43 (30.5%) were female, age ranged between 7 months and 81 years and the average age was found to be 34.4. Male / female ratio was calculated to be 2.3. The largest group was pedestrians deaths 59 (41.8%), 32 deaths were between the ages of 21-30, 29 cases were between the ages of 0-10, 96 (68.1%) of the cases died in the hospital.Prevention from traffic accidents which is a major public health problem as well as in the world and in our country. We should educate the pedestrians and drivers, and ensure the compliance of the roads and vehicles for traffic and get full implementation of safety measures.