a Road Traffic Accident(RTA) was defined as accident, which took place on the roadbetween two or more objects, one of which must be any kindof a moving vehicle.
Any injury on the road without involvement of a vehicle (e.g. a person slipping and falling on the road and sustaining injury) or injury involving a stationary vehicle (e.g. persons getting injured while washing or loading a vehicle) or deaths due to ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT were excluded from the study.
The victims of the accidents were interviewed to obtain the information about the circumstances leading to accident.
A pre-tested proforma specially designed for this purpose was used for interviewing the accident victims, either in the
casualty or in the wards of JMR Hospital.
Where the condition of the victims did not warrant the interview, the relatives or attendants were interviewed.
The information collected consisted of personal identification data, time, date, day and type of vehicles involved in ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, protective gear worn and category of road users.
The medico-legal records and case sheets were referred for collecting additional information and where necessary for cross-checking.