Analysis of Deaths Caused by Secondary Damages of Road Traffic Accidents：17 Fatal Cases / 法医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the forensic identification points of deaths caused by secondary dam-ages of road traffic accidents. Methods Seventeen deaths caused by secondary dam ages of road traffic accidents were collected. Through scene investigation and necropsy, the basic inform ation of the acci-dents, distribution and property of the injuries, and other inform ation were collected. A ccording to the collected data, the scene was reconstructed in order to confirm the injury process, analyze the way, mechanism and severity of injury, distinguish antem ortem injury from postm ortem injury, and determ ine the cause of deaths. Results C ertain features such as serious injuries, multiple traum as, com bined in-juries, co-existence of antem ortem and postm ortem injuries, multiple causes of wounds, com plex injury mechanism , as well as the mutual dam aging and overlapping injuries were quite characteristically noted in these secondary traffic accident cases. Conclusion Forensic assessment of deaths caused by secondary dam ages of road traffic accidents should be synthetically analyzed and judged through scene investigation and necropsy.