Objective: to describe the victim profile and circumstances of transport accidents involving
children and adolescents who were attended at a teaching hospital in the southern zone of
the city of São Paulo.
Methods: this was an individual observational case series study among patients up to the
age of 19 years who were attended at a hospital in the southern zone of the city of São
Paulo, state of São Paulo, Brazil, due to traffic accidents. The files notifying suspected or
confirmed cases of violence and accidents (SIVVA files) covering January to December 2012
were analyzed.
Results: among the 149 cases notified, 64.4% related to males and 35.6% to females. The
transport accidents were predominantly among males, irrespective of age. The main injury
diagnoses were superficial head trauma (24.8%) followed by multiple non-specified trauma
(36.4%), in both sexes.
Conclusion: transport accidents among children and adolescents occurred more often among
males. The main transport accidents among the children and adolescents attended as emergency
cases were caused by motor vehicles and motorcycles. Among the accident victims,
the largest proportion was attended because of being run over.