Forensic Pathological Study of Drivers Exploring the Role of Alcohol in Road Traffic Accidents

Authors

  • Abhishek Sangal Junior Resident Department of Forensic Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut – 250005
  • A K Srivastava Prof & Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine Subharti Medical College, Meerut – 250005
  • Amit Kumar Prof, Dept. of Forensic Medicine Subharti Medical College, Meerut – 250005
  • Bindu Sharma Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Biochemistry Subharti Medical College, Meerut – 250005
  • S Naagtilak Prof, Dept. of Biochemistry, Subharti Medical College, Meerut

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Road traffic accidents, Driver, Blood alcohol concentration, Head injury, Two-wheelers

Abstract

Road traffic accident is one of the leading causes of trauma, disabilities and deaths. Nearly 50  crore people are injured across the world every year of which more than 12 million turned into fatal.  Amongst the various causes of road traffic accidents, rash driving is one of the major causes of accident  which is substantiated by driving under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol not only inhibits self-control but  impairs the judgment and visual acuity, affects safe driving that’s why it is restricted all over the world. In  this study, the person who were driving and injured in road traffic accidents, were investigated for  epidemiological and clinico-pathological characteristics including causes/factors responsible for the  accidents. All the victims were male above 15 years of the age and motorcyclists were the most (82.52%)  injured. Fault of the driver was the commonest (53.39%) reason behind the accident and large number of  them (23.30%) had consumed alcohol before driving. This was also confirmed by estimating  concentration of alcohol in blood by Vitros Auto-analyzer. 

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Published

2015-10-30

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 3 (2015): Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine (July-September)

Section

Original Research Paper

How to Cite

Sangal, A., Srivastava, A. K., Kumar, A., Sharma, B., & Naagtilak , S. (2015). Forensic Pathological Study of Drivers Exploring the Role of Alcohol in Road Traffic Accidents . Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine, 37(3), 237-241. https://doi.org/10.48165/