Citation

Singh P, Choudhary SP, Singh SK. Int. J. Sci. Res. 2020; 9(2): 34-35.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Global Journals / Worldwide Journals)

DOI

10.36106/ijsr/6012827

PMID

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Abstract

Road Trafc Accident (RTA) can be dened as ,'An event that occurs on a way or street open to public trafc; resulting in one or more persons being injured or killed, where at least one moving vehicle is involved. This study was based on Information on victim's age, gender, educational, occupational, time, place of incidence, type of road, whether victim was pedestrian or any vehicle rider, type of offending vehicle, number of people involved, nature, manner and mode of death, parts of the body involved, nature of injuries etc, were collected from interviews of persons/ policeman accompanying the victim's body and from papers involved in the medico-legal autopsy. It was concluded in present study, that we require preventive measures, a systematic approach needs to be incorporated to minimize deaths. More man power needs to be trained and educated to meet these needs.

Language: en