Road Traffic Accidents

Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) are becoming an ongoing progressive disaster causing injuries, deaths, loss of quality of life due to disabilities and property losses leading to short term and long term impacts to the individuals and to the society. RTC has become a burden which is neglected by both locally and globally. Therefore this disaster is progressing in days, years and decades loosing thousand of lives and millions of properties and quality of the life of people. This study was designed under the objectives of to identify the injuries caused by road traffic crashes, to identify the disabilities caused by road traffic crashes, to identify the most vulnerable age group to the road traffic crashes and to describe the socio demographic characteristics of the injured road users (1096 cases). As road traffic crashes affect good health of people causing direct and indirect socio- economic problems showing common features of a disaster, RTC was recommended as a disaster in the country.

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TDM Suranga B Dassanayake currently works as a lecturere attached to AHSU,Faculty of Medicine,University of Colombo,Sri Lanka.He is an MSc holder in Disaster Management (2006 - 2008.)from Post Graduate Institute of Science,University of Peradeniya. At present he conducts researches in disaster management, physiotherapy and rehabilitation fields.