Pawłowski Witold, Goniewicz Krzysztof, Goniewicz Mariusz, Czerski Robert. Cranio-cerebral injuries in road accidents: characteristics and clinical process. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(3):389-396. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1205121 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5374 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/860263 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (Http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.02.2018. Revised: 10.02.2018. Accepted: 21.03.2018. Cranio-cerebral injuries in road accidents: characteristics and clinical process Witold Pawłowski¹, Krzysztof Goniewicz¹,², Mariusz Goniewicz³, Robert Czerski² ¹ Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Disaster Medicine ² Polish Air Force Academy, Faculty of National Security and Logistics ³ Medical University of Lublin, Department of Emergency Medicine Abstract The constant progress of civilization involves the mechanization of daily life, including in particular the use of motor vehicles, mainly cars and all sorts of two-wheelers. The rapid growth of the automotive industry in the world has brought a huge increase in traumatism. The aim of the study was to characterize cranio-cerebral and to provide a substrate for further study provided within the subject. Injuries arising as a result of rotational forces in protected road users usually cause minimal damage to the exterior of very serious internal injuries. During the evaluation of the injured at the scene of the injury victims should receive occiput red color in the medical segregation Key words: cranio-cerebral injuries, hospitalization, epidemiology