A Cross Sectional Study Of Deaths Occurred In Railway Accidents Brought To Mortuary, GGH, Guntur

Dr. V. Siva Kameswara Rao.; Dr. T.T.K. Reddy; Dr. A. Ramesh Babu.; Dr. P. Chandra Sekhara Rao.; Dr. N. Poorna Chandra Rao.; Dr. V. Krishna Murthy.

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

A Cross Sectional Study Of Deaths Occurred In Railway Accidents Brought To Mortuary, GGH, Guntur

Dr. V. Siva Kameswara Rao. , Dr. T. T. K. Reddy, Dr. A. Ramesh Babu. , Dr. P. Chandra Sekhara Rao. , Dr. N. Poorna Chandra Rao. , Dr. V. Krishna Murthy.

Abstract :

Railway accidents are one of the challenging cases during the post–mortem examination where there is always a suspicion about the manner of death whether it is homicidal or suicidal or accidental in nature. The role of medicolegal expert is vast to differentiate among them by correlating the findings, injuries and observation of scene of offence. Many of the railway deaths remain unknown because of various reasons. The present study emphasises the various medicolegal aspects regarding the nature of injuries the cause of death, manner of death and possibilities to overcome the hurdles regarding the identification and manner of death.