This is an epidemiologic descriptive study. With the objective to describe the profile of the fatal victims by traffic accidents in the city of Rio de Janeiro from the records of the Medical-Legal Institute and to compare it to the levels of alcoholemy detected trough laboratorial examination. The data collection was made according to the Resolution 196/96 of the National Council of Health. The data was raised in archives of the MLI, trough the medical records of the fatal victims of traffic accidents, of the victims' universe by all the external causes, and recorded from a specific information system, grouped and tabulated by the statistic program EPI INFO, in the period between January and February of 2005. It became evident that 27.8% of the fatal victims presented detected alcoholemy. In 64% of these, the alcoholemy level was above 0.6 g/L, while 36% presented a significant perceptual of mortality with levels below the legal limit established in Brazil.
Ethanol; Accidents, Traffic; Mortality
