Background Trauma complicates approximately 7 % of pregnancies and is thereby the leading cause of non-obstetric morbidity and mortality during pregnancy [1-10]. The risk of traumatic injury increases with the advancement of pregnancy [4,8,10,11]. Pregnancy as such does not increase morbidity or mortality following trauma but leads to different mechanisms and patterns of injury with an increased vulnerability to abdominal injury [4,6,10,12]. One needs to bear in mind that trauma affects both mother and unborn child, with the latter having a higher mortality rate [4,13]. The spectrum of trauma severity is broad. Severe trauma often leads to fetal loss but minor trauma is responsible for the majority (60-70%) of fetal deaths due to its higher prevalence [2,4,10,12,14]. However, the likelihood of adverse fetal outcome is often unpredictable and does not correlate with the degree of trauma [4,15,16].