DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i09.016

Pages: 475-479

Introduction: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are nowadays a real worldwide scourge because of the high number of victims. In Mali, we have little data related to the characteristics of deaths related to MVAs, hence the interest of this study which aimed to determine the sociodemographic, clinical and paraclinical characteristics of deaths involving a motorcycle received in our forensic medicine unit. Materials and method: This was a prospective, monocentric, cross-sectional study conducted from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 in the forensic medicine unit of the CHU GT. Were included, all deaths involving a motorcycle received in our unit and accompanied by a requisition. Results: Of 458 MVA deaths, we identified 147 motorcycle deaths, a prevalence of 32.1%. The mean age was 36.5 years with extremes of 1 to 72 years and a sex ratio of 7.65. Students were the most represented, 90 cases (25.18%). The motorcycle mechanism was more frequent 90 cases (61.9%). The month of May and the hours from 19:00 to 05:00 were the most frequent times of occurrence of accidents respectively 37 cases (25.2%) and 76 cases (51.7%). Polytraumatic lesions were found on 83 bodies, i.e. 56.46%. Death was noted on arrival in 80% of cases and none of our bodies had undergone autopsy. Conclusion: Motorcycle accidents on public roads remain a major public health problem in our country.