DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i04.007

Pages: 1398-1405

In the 21st century in developing country like India due to the growth of economic status of the people and passion to own a vehicle in recent years, there is tremendous increase in the number of motor vehicles using the road. This Spectacular increase in the number of vehicles on the road had created a major problem of loss of lives and property through accidents. Road Traffic Accidents cause 1 death every 9 minutes (160 every day and 60,000 every year) four and half times as many as non-fatal accidents. Motorcycle accidents account for 25% of total road crash deaths. Motorized two-wheeler vehicles constitute a large portion of the vehicle fleet in India. Overall, 1969 medico-legal autopsies were conducted in the study center during the study period; among them, 132 cases are purely two-wheeler related Road Traffic Accidents. Two-wheeler fatalities were significantly higher in males (82.57%) than females (17.43%). Most of the victims were in the age group of 21 to 40 years (56.06%). The majority of the victims belong to Urban population (66.67%), graduate and high school certificate (73.47%), unskilled, semi-skilled, students and semi-profession group (65.16%), socio-economic class III and IV (71.97%), married(53.03%). Fatal accidents were noted most common in months of January to May (68.95%), Summer (56.06%) and winter (31.06%) were most common seasons. Most of the accidents were common in evening hours (56.06%) followed by morning (21.97%). In spite of the advancement of the technology and medical sciences dead and deformity following road traffic accidents is yet to be controlled successfully. Rather the incidence of road traffic accidents has been increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world, Road traffic accidents are the third major preventable cause of death. In this study, a sincere effort has been made to suggest measures to be taken to decrease road traffic accidents involving two-wheelers.