Citation

Guddat SS, Müller-Rakow P, Wiedmann P, Puschel K, Tsokos M. Arch. Kriminol. 2007; 219(1-2): 40-45.

Vernacular Title

Atypisches Verletzungsbild nach todlicher Uberrollung durch einen Unimog im

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Hamburg.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17380942

Abstract

Strongly intoxicated, a 37-year-old man fell in front of the right back wheel of an emergency vehicle (MB Unimog) and was run over according to eye witnesses. He died in hospital shortly afterwards. The autopsy revealed that he bled to death from a traumatic liver rupture (bursting of the right hepatic lobe and severing of a piece of tissue measuring 17 x 8 x 4 cm). There were no injuries classicaly seen in victims run over by a car. The atypical injury findings in this case are due to the special features of the accident vehicle: The Unimog (an all-wheel vehicle with a fixed rear axle and flat coils) struck the right side of the body lying on the street with its rear wheel and was then lifted over the body by its fixed axle without touching the left side.

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