بررسي وضعيت موتورسيكلت سواران متوفي ناشي از تصادفات جاده اي ارجاع شده به تالار تشريع مركز پزشكي قانوني شهرستان ساري در سال 1382

The study of cyclist situation died owing to road accidents referred to Legal Medicine Center- Sari, 2003

Background: Road accidents are the major cause of death in our country and motor cycle riders are a major portion of this group. According to 2003 statistics in comparison to 2001 there is a dramatic (noticeable) increase of 82% death among motor cyclists. Thus we decided to study the injury patterns of the motor cyclist s corpus in Sari. Methods: This study is a prospective, cross- sectional, and done in Sari Legal Medicine center in 2003. The information pertaining to 89 motor cycle- related cases contained medical examination, hospital and demographic information gathered and analyzed by SPSS 11 software. Results: From among 89 cases of motor cycle related death in 2003, most victims were male (93.3 %). driver (84.2 %) and average age was 28.1 years. Most of the accidents occurred during summer vacation and night. The most common injury to motor cyclists was head, extremities and trunk in decreasing frequency. Conclusion: Head trauma is leading cause of injury and death in motor cycle accident. Use of helmet in motorcyclist and preventive measure is necessary to decrease in mortality of this group. in addition it seems that the time of death of the cyclists follows certain time interval that could be reduced by preventive measurements.