Table 1.

Causative mechanisms in lumbosacral plexus injuries

	Car crash	Motorcycle crash	Other road accidents	Work accident (different from falling from on high)	Sport accident	Accidental falling from above (including work accident)	Other
Detailed description of the causal mechanisms	Frontal impact against another veicle (car, van, track, motorcycle): 9 cases	Frontal impact against another veicle (car): 6 cases	3 patients (2 small children) run down by a car	1 patient° crushed by a silo falling from on high on a ship	1 ski accident (hitting a pole during downhill)	1 patient falling from the fourth floor	1 patient run down by an earthwork and hit by a slab of asphalt
	Frontal impact against the guardrail: 2 cases or a wall: 1 case or a gate: 2 cases	Bus/track overriding the motorcycle: 2 cases	1 patient crushed by a car against a gate	1 patient whose foot was trapped and pulled by a reaper machine	1 watermotorcycle accident	1 Pt. fell off a ladder, lied on the floor on his left side for several hrs before rescue (nervous ischemia?)
	Frontal impact against a tree lining the road: 4 cases				1 patient slipping and falling down during a basketball match	2 patients falling from a scaffold (work accident)
	Driving off the road: 8 cases
	No clear car accident dynamics:17 cases	No clear accident dynamics: 7 cases
Total number of patients	43*	15*	4	2	3	4*	1

*patient with associated brachial plexus palsy °patient with bilateral lumbosacral plexus palsy.