Abstract
Patients admitted to the Prince Henry Hospital and the Prince of Wales hospital from 1960 to 1965 with injury to head or spine after road accidents are reviewed. Some important aspects raised by the figures are discussed. These include the age groups of patients sustaining neurotrauma in cars and as pedestrians. Other aspects discussed include the patients relative liability to head and spinal injury, their relative mortality and morbidity possible ways in which the management of these patients might be organized, and ways in which this problem, and the larger one of the road accidents generally, might be further studied.