Dr. Sujit Addya, Dr. Dipak BhuyanÂ
The Study Was Conducted at a Tertiary Care Centre in which retrospective analysis of 500 cases, who sustained injury involving any part of eye due to Road Traffic Accidents attending Emergency Department of a tertiary care centre in North East India from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2014 , was performed . The patients case sheet was examined from which we noted down the examination findings at presentation and final visual outcome till the last follow-up. Classification of eye injury was done on the basis of Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT) . The Commonest age of presentation was in the age group of 20-30 years with 33.3% of total cases . Male preponderance was observed . The majority of accidents took place in the winter months of January , February and December, suggesting a role of Weather in the etiology Road Traffic Accidents. It can be deducted that majority of accidents took place during the festive season and after the sunset . The maximum number of cases (33.2%) took place in cases of two wheelers whereas