DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.049

Pages: 676-680

Motor Vehicle Crashes (MVC) formed one of the leading causes of fatalities in KSA. In order to reduce the number of fatalities Government of KSA introduced Automated Traffic Control(ATC) system called, ”SAHAR” in Arabic in AD 2009. Objective of the study was to assess the impact of ATC on the incidence of pediatric trauma and fatality due to MVC in Riyadh, KSA. For this retrospective cross sectional study, all the pediatric MVC trauma subjects(n=1030) reported to King Abdulaziz Medical City(KAMC)five years before and five years after the introduction of ATC (AD 2004-2014) were selected. Data with respect to demography, details of injury, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and hospital outcome were collected and analyzed by using SPSS Version 22. For data analysis Mean ± SD, frequencies, percentages, chi-square tests and students’t test were employed at 5% level of significance. Logistic regression analysis was performed to ascertain the effects of age, sex, cause of injury and GCS with overall fatality rate with Odds ratio at 95% Confidence Interval (CI).Results of the study indicated that ATC was effective in reducing MVC and severity of injuries. It also, put a notion to the vehicle manufacturing companies to improve burn safety to prevent fire from spreading to the passenger compartment.