Citation

Najari F, Alimohammadi AM. Emergency (Tehran, Iran) 2015; 3(4): 165-167.

Affiliation

Center of Forensic Medicine researches, Forensic legal Medicine organization, Tehran, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26495409

PMCID

PMC4608342

Abstract

Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examination of the body and the results of the autopsy, toxicology and pathology tests are described from the viewpoint of forensic medicine.

Language: en