Abstract

Among all types of accidents, those caused by motor vehicles claim the largest toll of life and tend to be most serious, road traffic accidents(RTA) continues to be growing menace incurring heavy loss of valuable man –power, along with corresponding drain of potential economic growth of country. Present study was taken up with the aim to assess the Socio demographic distribution of road traffic accidents and the pattern of head injuries occurred in RTA. Methodology: A Descriptive Cross sectional study conducted on the post mortems of RTA cases. A Convenient purposive sampling technique was applied to select the sample of 113 road traffic accidents autopsies.
Results: the majority of the victims were aged 21 to 40 years (46.02%), male (92.0%), and Hindus (90.27%). More crashes (37.17%) took place at 6:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Majority of the RTA took place on weekends 62 (54.87%) at city cross roads 62 (54.87%). Most of the accidents occurred by heavy motor vehicle 45 (39.82%).
Conclusions: Since then the patterns of injury from man's interaction with the motor car may have been somewhat modified by crash protection devices, such as helmets, seat belts and air bags, but injuries due to road traffic related trauma are worsening each year. The use of motor vehicles is growing worldwide.