Modes, Manner of deaths and types of injuries in Warangal Municipal Limits

Abstract

Accident is an unexpected, unplanned occurrence which may involve injury or it may be defined as an
unpremeditated event resulting in recognizable damage. Railway related injuries are not those uncommon
occurrences in forensic practice. Among the varied presentation of injuries, superficial injuries along with
fractures were commonly observed. Over the last 15 years many railway accidents have happened in Andhra
Pradesh and in India. Following these train accidents, there has been a large amount of public debate about
safety management on the Indian railways. These accidents have raised issues regarding the effectiveness of
the safety management of the railway system. This paper presents a summary of the results of a preliminary
systemic analysis of several rail accidents in and around Warangal City. The present study was conducted
in the Department of Forensic Medicine, Warangal Medical College, Warangal from January 2013 to June
2014 i.e., 12 months, during which the total postmortem cases were 74 occurred in the jurisdiction of the
Govt. Railway Police Station, Warangal. The factors taken to enumerate the study are cause of death, manner
of death, relationship between scene of offense and cause of death, relation of intoxication status to the
manner of death, age versus manner of death and period of survival.