RESULTS Etiology of Maxillo-facial fractures The most common cause of maxillo-Facial fractures was motor vehicle accidents (Table I) which comprised lorries, motorcars and motorcycles accidents (71.9%). Frequency of fractures of the maxillo-facial bones due to falls (13.7%) and fights (9.1 %) were almost equal but far less often than motor vehicle accidents. The others were caused at work, spor...

Obstructive sleep apnoea is associated with an increased risk of sleep-related motor vehicle accidents. Seven recent legal cases of fatal motor vehicle accidents on NSW roads are presented, where the driver who caused the accident was suffering from an unrecognised or under-treated sleep disorder. The legal outcomes in these cases were variable: some of the drivers have been acquitted and other...

Diaphragmatic injuries occur frequently after penetrating rather than blunt trauma and account for 8% of all organ injuries from penetrating trauma. Motor vehicle accidents account for approximately 50% of blunt injuries, followed in frequency by falls from height. The mechanism of injury in these accidents is that the body quickly decelerates while the organs continue to move downward or forwa...

The article by Snyder and Bloom highlights the importance of physicians’ actively participating in the legislative process when medicolegal issues are involved. The specific forensic questions addressed by the authors focus on physician reporting of potentially impaired drivers—a problem that has been precipitated by the complexities involved in determining fitness to drive in the elderly. It i...

OBJECTIVE The mortality rate due to traffic accidents is an information often used while making public health policies. In order to measure traffic violence, a study was carried to analyze the number of death by traffic accidents per registered motor vehicle. METHODS Based on the number of registered vehicles, population and traffic accident deaths, obtained from the Statistical Yearbook (199...