Mehdi Forouzesh, Abdolrazagh Barzegar, Forutan Salehinezhad, Hamidreza Nazifi, Leila Dousti

Abstract

In our country road accidents are one of the major causes of death, which is a major part of the victims of motorcycle riders. For this reason, we decided to investigate abdominal injuries in crashes leading to the death of motorcyclists sent to the forensic clinic in Lorestan province.  This is a descriptive-analytic study. Sampling was done by census. The data of each of the 196 accidental death cases in the motorcycle riders of the legal medicine center of Lorestan province in 2015-2017, including the results of examinations in the archives filed in the legal practitioner, hospital records, profiles and demographic information were recorded. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 24. Of the 196 bodies referred to the center, 95.9% were male and 4.1% were women. The mean age of the subjects was 36.31. The place of death was 37.3% of the dead at the incident, 10.2% during the transfer and 52.6% in the hospital. 75% of drivers were traumatized and 24.5% were Turkish. Damage to various parts of the body, head and faces were in 35.2%, and breast and neck were 24%. The most common cause of death in abdominal injuries was visceral tear with 38.3%. Rupture of the spleen, liver, intestine, and bleeding of the peritoneal cavity is another cause of this type of death. Damage to the head was the main cause of death. Therefore, the use of helmets can play a significant role in reducing mortality and complications in accidents. In addition, the time of death of motorcyclists seems to follow a specific time pattern that can be cropped by preventive measures against such deadly road accidents.