A Study of Death Due to Railway Accidents: An Autopsy Based Cross Sectional Study Conducted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
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https://doi.org/10.37506/xjkawe19Keywords:
Cause of death, Manner of death, Pattern of injuries, Train Traffic Accident.Abstract
A train accident is defined as “Collision, Derailment, or any other event involving the operation
of n- track equipment”. To estimate the pattern of injuries in Railway Accidents and to estimate
the Cause of death and Manner of death in Railway Accidents. The present study is conducted in
Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Stanley Medical College from January 2020 to December
2020 in all the cases of Railway Accidents subjected to postmortem examination. During the study
period, 61 cases were subjected for autopsy, the most common age group is 20 to 40 years. The most
commonly injured organ is Brain followed by Liver and most of them died within 12 to 24 hours prior
to post mortem examination. The railway fatalities were more of accidental in nature, less
frequently suicidal and rarely homicidal. Internal organs commonly involved Brain followed by
spinal cord, liver etc., It is also found that injuries to the upper half of the body are more
common when compared to that of lower half of the body. The most common cause of death
was hemorrhage shock from Multiple injuries, followed by Head injury, Thoracic injury, and Abdominal injury.
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