The study had carried out to know the various epidemiological, medico legal aspects of vehicular accidents in Bidar district population, making an attempt to establish various causative factors, pattern and distribution of injuries and thereby to plan preventive measures against it. Material & Method: All the cases of road traffic accident brought to the department for medico legal postmortem examination during the period from 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2009 were the subjects of the study. Information regarding date, time and place of incident age and related information was gathered from detailed history taken from the relatives of deceased and from the Police inquest.Total 860 postmortem had been conducted, out of which 120 cases of road traffic accidents. The maximum victims were male ( Male : female ratio 9:1 ) and were in age group of 30-44years. Among the presence of injuries abrasion were present in maximum number of victims 102 (85%) followed by the Palpable fractures in 82 (68.33%) victims. Maximum had injuries over head region i.e. 81(67.50%). The maximum number of deaths occurred during in winter season and were pedestrians.

Key words: Road traffic injuries, head injury, vehicular accident and pedestrians.