Citation

Behera C, Rautji R, Dogra TD. Med. Sci. Law 2008; 48(1): 87-88.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology AIIMS, New Delhi-110029, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18341165

Abstract

A 40-year-old lady was found dead on a road early one morning. She had allegedly been run over by a speeding vehicle. The head of the deceased had been decapitated, with egg shelling of the skull from the scalp and face. The skull was lying a little distance away from the rest of the body. Although decapitation is not an unknown entity in a road traffic accident, subsequent egg shelling of the skull, leaving behind scalp and face tissue, has not been reported in a road traffic accident in the forensic literature.

Language: en