Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN SURARAM HYDERABAD TELANGANA STATE

Dr. T. Vikramaditya

Abstract :

 

Back ground: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are the major causes of premature deaths. Most of these deaths can be ave1ted by adopting proper measures. Knowledge of mode of occurrence of these accidents may give insight of prevention. The present study has been taken up to know the epidemiological factors of road traffic accidents in Suraram village, Qutbullapur Mandal, Hyderabad (Telangana State)

 

Materials and methods: The present retrospective study was conducted in the department of forensic medicine Malla Reddy Institute of Medical Sciences (MRIMS) located at Suraram village, Qutbullapur Mandal, Hyderabad. MRIMS Hospital is located on NH9

(Narsapur Road). The hospital has 650 beds with all the specialties and is catering services to the surround ing areas. The Vehicular traffic being high and added is the poor road conditions contributing to increased number of accidents. The study was conducted for 6 months period from April to Septernber 2016, during which, 84 cases were reported to the hospital. All the cases reported to MRIMS Hospital were studied in relat ion to various variables. The data analyzed using MS–excel to form tables.

 

Observations: During study period 84 cases reported.

 

Results: the results shows more than 50%of the RTAS occurred in the age group of 15– 30yers, Maximum accidents occurred (29.76%) occurred during afternoon 3–6P.m around 50% of the accidents occurred in the month of July .The time interval from the occurrence of the RTA to arrival at hospital was l–2hrs in41.67%of the cases .Majority of the RTA occurred among two wheeler users (52.38%).RTA due to self–skidding occurred in26.19% of the two wheeler users

 

Conclusion: It is observed, among all the categories of vehicles involved in RTA, the two wheeler users were the majority involved in accidents(52. 38%).Most of causes of the accidents were due to fault of the driver and in (8.34%)of the cases, there was influence of alcohol while driving

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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN SURARAM HYDERABAD TELANGANA STATE , Dr. T. Vikramaditya , PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2018

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