Editor—Road traffic crashes and their sequelae are a scourge in all societies, both developed and developing. Each year over a million people are killed in road traffic collisions worldwide and some 10 million people are injured or disabled by these events, predominantly in low and middle income countries. Despite what is known about road traffic crashes and their health consequences, policymak...

Background: Apart from the mortality, road traffic injuries are associated with significant morbidities. This study has aimed to examine the pattern of traffic accident-related extremity fractures/dislocations and their related disabilities. Methods: A retrospective hospital-based study was conducted to assess the characteristics of limb fractures/dislocations among road traffic accident victi...

OBJECTIVE To compare information about traffic crash injuries and kilometers driven reported in a written questionnaire with information reported in a telephone interview. DESIGN Telephone and paper surveys. SETTING The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN, University of Navarra Follow-up) study, in Spain. The SUN study is an open enrollment cohort study with 17 000 enrolled graduates fo...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the burden of road traffic injury due to alcohol consumption by someone other than the injured party. We estimated the number and proportion of these traffic deaths and non-fatal traffic injuries, and the associated social costs, for a five-year period (2003-2007) in New Zealand. We found that more than 40% of alcohol-related crash injuries in New Zeala...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injury patients admitted to 35 hospitals in Lublin region. OBJECTIVE To describe the pattern of road traffic injuries in Lublin county, Poland. METHODS Review of medical records for the period from January 2004 to December 2005. RESULTS Pedestrians accounted for the largest share of the Road traffic crash (RTC) injury cases (35.8%) and 46.4% of deaths. The highest ...

BACKGROUND Maxillofacial injuries pose a therapeutic challenges to trauma, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons practicing in developing countries. This study was carried out to determine the etiology, injury characteristics and management outcome of maxillofacial injuries at our teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective hospital based study of maxillofacial injury patients was carr...

Of all the unintentional injuries among children, about 38% are from children’s road traffic injuries (RTIs). This denotes 16.5% of mortality among children out of the global mortality for due to RTIs with fatal outcomes. As children grow older the predominant type of their injuries changes. Children aged among 5-19 are more likely to be injured on roads. They are mainly victims of the ad...