Citation

Chatzaraki V, Thali MJ, Ampanozi G, Schweitzer W. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 2018; 39(2): 130-140.

Affiliation

From the Department of Forensic Medicine and Imaging, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PAF.0000000000000382

PMID

29438138

Abstract

Fatal car-to-pedestrian collisions regularly appear in the forensic pathologist's routine, particularly in places of extended urbanization. Postmortem computed tomography has gained an exceptional role to supplement autopsy worldwide, giving information that is supplementary or complimentary to conventional autopsy. In this retrospective study, a total number of 320 findings in a series of 21 pedestrians fatally hit by cars and trucks of both postmortem computed tomography and autopsy were correlated. According to our results, it is best to combine both methods to give well-founded answers to questions pertaining to both collision reconstruction and cause of death.

Language: en