Road Traffic Accident Deaths in Benghazi during (2011)

Abstract

This work aims to observe and to study the figures of road traffic accidents (RTA's) as a cause of death during (2011) in Benghazi City.Analysis was done using the patient records of Al-Jalaa hospital (the main trauma centred in Benghazi) from over 200 RTA cases received at that time, was to observe if RTA still considered as a major unnatural cause of death among young Libyans regarding previous statistics or it is affected by other traumatic causes of death through 2011.The data were compared to each other and changes of trends were observed.We conclude that an RTA death at that year was still high when compared with other causes of death.