Adana’da Trafik Kazalarına Bağlı Ölümlerin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

…ZET SUMMARYTraffic accidents play important role in the daily routine of forensic practices. Thousands of people die or get injured due to traffic accidents each year. Traffic accidents and the data must be very well over viewed and analyzed for to assure correct protective and preventive safeties.In this study we have analyzed the data of the Adana District Attorney, the Legal Medicine Branch and Morgue Unit of the Adana Branch of the Turkish Forensic Medicine Council between the dates 01.01. 2001-31.12.2004. The cases have been evaluated by age, gender, cause of death and place where death took place.There were 3516 cases in total. 1269 (36.1 % ) of them died due to traffic accidents. Ninehundred sixtysix (76.1 %) were male while 303 (23.9 %) of them were female. The age range was starting from two days old to 90 years. The mean value was 37.6. The majority of the cases were pedestrians with 576 (45.4 %) cases. Most of the deaths were in between the ages of 0-10 with 205 (16.2 %) cases.

Features of Traffic Accidents Occurred in Aydin Province between 2005 and 2011

“…In the present study, head trauma (40.4%) was the second leading cause of death after whole body trauma (44.3%). This rate has been reported to be 59.1% in the study by Gören et al, [13] 83.3% in the study by Karbeyaz et al, [14] and 61.5% in the study conducted by Hilal et al [18] In a study evaluating the cases presented to emergency rooms after traffic accidents in the province of Sivas, Turkey, head trauma has been detected in 18.6% of the cases. [38] Çırak et al [39] have reported traffic accidents as the cause in 48% of head trauma cases presented to the emergency room.…”

“…[17] The present study comprised 281 (84.1%) male cases and 53 (15.9%) female cases with a male to female ratio of 5.3, which was consistent with the findings reported in the relevant studies. [13,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] This was attributed to the higher male count in traffic. Studies conducted in Turkey have reported that the cases involved in traffic accidents are predominantly in the young age group.…”

“…These findings were also consistent with the findings of previous studies. [13,14,18] In the present study, evaluation of the vehicle types involved in traffic accidents resulting in deaths revealed that 27.2% were automobiles, 8.7% were tractors, 67 (20.1%) were motorcycles, 14 (4.2%) were bicycles, 4.2% were bus-minibuses, 2.1% were truck/pick-ups, one was a tanker, and one was an ambulance, whereas 14 deaths occurred due to train accidents. It has been reported that automobile and minibusbus accidents are frequent as these vehicles are widely found in traffic, motorcycle-bicycle accidents are frequent due to rare use of helmets by motorcyclists and cyclists, and tractor accidents are frequent due to uncontrolled use of tractors in the rural areas for both agricultural labor and passenger transport.…”

Analysis of accidental deaths of children under five years of age

“…Çocukluk çağındaki trafik kazasına bağlı ölüm-lerin daha çok sokakta oynayan (yaya veya bisikletli) çocuklarda görülmesi, sıklıkla anne ve babasının koruma ve gözetiminde olması gereken çocukların sokakta korumasız, tedbirsiz kendi başlarına bırakılması ve kendini tehlikelerden koruyamaması ile ilişkilendirilmiştir. Dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemiz açısından da büyük bir halk sağlığı problemi olan trafik kazalarının önlen-mesi için alınabilecek çeşitli önlemler içerisinde, yaya ve sürücülerin eğitimi, yol ve araçların trafik için uygunluğunun sağlanması, güvenlik önlem-lerinin eksiksiz uygulanması sayılmaktadır (21). Ev kazaları ve çevresel kazalar nedeniyle çocuk ölümleri Dünya çapında önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunu olup özellikle Türkiye gibi gelişmekte olan ülkelerin, yanı sıra az gelişmiş ülkelerde olduğu gibi, tüm kazalardan çocukların korunması amaçlanmalıdır.…”

Bisiklet ve Motorsiklet Kazası Sonucu Yaralanma ve Ölümler

“…Çal›flmada ölen 21 olgudan sadece 2 (%9.5) olguya klasik otopsi yap›lm›flt›r. Trafik kazas› sonucu ölen olgulara otopsi yap›lma oran› Adana'da yap›lan bir çal›flmada %6.9 olarak bildirilmifltir (38). Hasta dosyas›ndaki bulgular ile otopsi bulgular›n›n karfl›laflt›r›ld›¤› çal›flmalarda, arada farkl›l›klar olabilece¤i, fizik muayene ve görüntüleme yöntemleriyle tespit edilemeyen bulgular›n otopside ortaya ç›kabilece¤i gösterilmifltir (39).…”