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The collected data included demographics, etiology, transportation groups (driver, car occupant, pedestrian, motorcyclist, bicyclist), GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale), clinical outcome (ICU (intensive care unit) admission, neurosurgical intervention, mortality) and CT imaging features. Images were analyzed independently by two physicians. The findings reflect a selected population of polytrauma patients who underwent cerebral CT at a single emergency hospital. Results: Brain injury was identified in 39% of all subjects, the most frequent type of lesion being intraparenchymal hematoma (24%), followed by subdural hematoma (23%). Brain injury was numerically more frequent among patients with falls (45%) than among those involved in RTAs (37%), although this difference did not reach statistical significance in either unadjusted or age-, sex-, and mechanism-adjusted analysis (p &gt; 0.05). CT patterns differed across transportation categories, with bicyclists showing associations with intraparenchymal hemorrhage and diffuse brain swelling and pedestrians with intraventricular hemorrhage (p &lt; 0.05). However, given the small bicyclist subgroup (n = 6), these findings should be considered exploratory. Car occupants showed lower unadjusted odds of brain injury compared with drivers (OR: 0.50; 95% CI: 0.30\u20130.80), but this association was attenuated and no longer statistically significant after adjusting for age and sex (adjusted OR: 0.55; 95% CI: 0.27\u20131.15; p = 0.112). In multivariable analysis of in-hospital mortality, only age and severe GCS category remained independently associated with death; neither injury mechanism nor transportation category showed an independent association once these factors were accounted for. Conclusions: Brain injury was more frequently observed among patients with falls than among those involved in RTAs. 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