Situation of Severe Injured and Deceased caused by Road Traffic Accident occurring in New Year Festival: Public Health Zone 1, 2007

Abstract

          The objectives of this study were to monitor and to study the injured and deceased caused by traffic accident occurring in the New Year Festival in the Public Health Zone 1, 2007 focusing on epidemiology and investigation. The methodology were to collect an injury and death person caused by traffic accident since December 28, 2006 to January 3, 2007 recorded by the Provincial Public Health Office in 8 provinces of the Regional Public Health (Region 1) and to analyze caused of road traffic accident in term of the nature, type and mode of occurrence of accidents. The study shows that the total number of road traffic accident was 4,456 people and the injury and death person were 636 and 44 people respectively. There was not reporting of the deceased in Lamphun Province and Mar Hong Son Province. In people of sex, more men than women have recorded numbers of injured and deceased in 3 and 6 times respectively. Chiang Rai Province has a maximum recorded number of injured and deceased following by Chiang Mai Province, Lampang Province and Nan Province. The maximum recorded number of injured and deceased was found occurring on December 31, 2006 to January 1, 2007. Considering of types of motor vehicles, motorcycle was shared 85 percent of total accidental motor vehicles, following by pick up vehicle that shared in 6.34 percent. The road traffic accident was occurred on the highways and rural roads and the highways was shared in 36.21 percent. The cause of the road traffic accident was undisciplined behavior on the roads such as not wearing safety hat and drinking alcohol respectively. In individual of transferring the injured and death person to the hospital and the second was emergency van (EMS). From the study, there were only 3 severe individual needed to investigate on site 2 people in Chiang Rai Province and 1 people in Nan Province. In accordance to the results of this study, the accident prevention measures should include road safety education, legislation and environmental modification. Increasing traffic injury mortality requires urgent measures of permanent permanent preventive activities. The evident importance of the problem shows the need of already being developed comprehensive prevention programs, such as Safe Communities and kind cooperation from related organizations continuously.