Citation

Feld K, Schiwy-Bochat KH, Rothschild MA. Rechtsmedizin 2019; 29(1): 48-50.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00194-018-0285-z

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 55-year-old man was found lifeless next to his car on an autobahn. On the left side of the neck there were huge gaping laceration type wounds. During the autopsy the injuries were found to partially have fine abrasions at the border and irregular margins of the wounds. The cause of death was named as injury-related polytrauma with inhalation of blood. During the further investigations a truck was seized, which showed sharp-edged damage to the metal on the right front of the vehicle. The injuries on the corpse were consistent with the ragged damaged edges on the truck so that this could be interpreted as a form of unusual and accident-related contact of the man with the truck. © 2018, Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.

Language: de

Keywords

adult; Accident; human; homicide; suicide; male; autopsy; case report; cause of death; traffic accident; cadaver; clinical article; middle aged; laceration; Sharp force; neck injury; multiple trauma; Polytrauma; abrasion; Article; Accident reconstruction; Unusual injury