Road Traffic Accidents: A Challenge
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Accidents, tragically are not often due to nature, but are due to carelessness, thoughtlessness, ignorance and over confidence. In India the victims of road traffic accidents are increasing day by day in morbidity and mortality. Its socioeconomic repercussion is a great matter of concern both on government as well as on community and family. Objectives: To find out epidemiological factors related to road traffic accident cases. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out, at emergency unit of tertiary care hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan on 400 road traffic accident cases, reported during the period of July 2010 to December 2010. Results: Among the 400 RTA study subjects, majority (81.0%) were male, most (80.25%) were in productive age group of (15-45) years. Out of 252 drivers of all types of vehicle, (33.33%) were observed consumed alcohol, among two-wheeler drivers, majority (64.86%) were without the use of helmet, and among drivers of four wheeler vehicle, most (59.62%) were observed without the use of seat belt. Among all study subjects, majority (32.50%) of the accidents occurred on Saturday/Sunday and the highest number (56.94%) of the accidents took place when the speed of the vehicle was more than 50 km/hour. There were 34 fatalities among all cases the majority (58.52%) had head injury. Conclusion: RTAs is a major public health problem in India and in most of the cases the factors responsible for occurrence of accidents could be preventable. Hence to mitigate the RTAs, we have to accelerate the measures of prevention and control like enforcement of traffic rules, road safety education and to increase the awareness among masses for importance of self-safety.
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Solanki Sl, Mittal Hemlata
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