Pattern of Skull Fracture in Fatal Road Traffic Accident Victims: An Autopsy Based Study

Head injuries are the most serious injuries in the term of morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted in Government Medical College mortuary among the 200 post mortem cases of road traffic accident victims over the period of one year from 1st October 2014 to 30th September 2015. All the cases coming during the study period were included in the study. The objective is to find out pattern of skull fracture in fatal road traffic accident victims. Linear fracture was found in 56.14% cases. In the present study it was observed that most of the fractures were present on Frontal bone alone i.e. 46 (40.35.0%) followed by Temporal bone alone (n=33; 28.94%), in combine Parieto-temporal bone fracture (n= 7.89 %) was most common followed by Fronto – Parietal bone fracture (n=4; 3.50%). Linear fracture alone most common among skull fractures and sutural fracture were least common. Frontal bone was most common site of skull fracture.