Citation

Huang SX, Zhang XG, Kong B, Deng ZH. Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi 2013; 29(5): 353-355.

Affiliation

Teaching and Research of Forensic Pathology, College of Pre-clinical and Forensic Medicine, West China School of Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Si fa bu Si fa jian ding ke xue ji shu yan jiu suo)

DOI

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PMID

24466775

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To explore the forensic identification points of deaths caused by secondary damages of road traffic accidents. METHODS: Seventeen deaths caused by secondary damages of road traffic accidents were collected. Through scene investigation and necropsy, the basic information of the accidents, distribution and property of the injuries, and other information were collected. According to the collected data, the scene was reconstructed in order to confirm the injury process, analyze the way, mechanism and severity of injury, distinguish antemortem injury from postmortem injury, and determine the cause of deaths. RESULTS: Certain features such as serious injuries, multiple traumas, combined injuries, co-existence of antemortem and postmortem injuries, multiple causes of wounds, complex injury mechanism, as well as the mutual damaging and overlapping injuries were quite characteristically noted in these secondary traffic accident cases. CONCLUSION: Forensic assessment of deaths caused by secondary damages of road traffic accidents should be synthetically analyzed and judged through scene investigation and necropsy.

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