Citation

Domínguez Pedroso ME, Sánchez Ugena F, Sánchez Botet T. Cuad. Medi. Forense 2007; (50): 269-274.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Asociación Andaluza de Médicos Forenses, Publisher Palacio de Justitia)

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Abstract

There are several reasons that induce somebody to mask a suicide simulating an accidental death. We expose a case in which the victim uses a traffic accident to masquerade a suicide by shotgun. By this way, the author tries to receive the reimbursement of the car's insurance as well as the money included in a private life insurance contracted just few days before. Only with the careful local death examination and the study of the victim's personal history, plus the essential autopsy, could we manage to understand the real aetiology of deaths in traffic accidents, especially focusing on those cases where there is a single car with a single passenger affected.

Language: es

Keywords

Traffic accident; Gunshot wound; Concealed suicide