Volume :

3

Issue :

2

Abstract :

BACKGROUND: Road traffic accidents are now becoming a leading cause of death among younger population. Every year nearly 1 million people die due to these accidents. Pedestrians are most vulnerable for injury in accidents. Head injury is an important cause for these deaths. OBJECTIVE: To find out the distribution and severity of road traffic accidents and to find the association between type of road user and head injury received during accident. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cross sectional study conducted in a tertiary care hospital of Kollam, Kerala. 400 patients admitted during October 2014 to march 2015 in the casualty for road accidents were selected for analysis. Emergency case files of these patients were studied in detail. Epi Info version 3.5.1. was used for analysis. Chi-square test was done to find significance. Difference was accepted as significant at more than 95% (p-value