@article{ref1,
title="Familial vehicular murder-suicide",
journal="Journal of forensic sciences",
year="2018",
author="Byard, Roger W. and O'Donovan, Siobhan and van den Huevel, Corinna and Baldock, Matthew Robert Justin",
volume="63",
number="4",
pages="1307-1308",
abstract="A certain number of single-vehicle crashes into stationary roadside objects such as trees are thought to be occult suicides. However, is it possible that some cases of multiple deaths within a family in similar crashes are due to unrecognized familial murder-suicides? A 39-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter are reported who died of injuries following a vehicle impact with a tree. Unusual behavior of the mother leading up to the crash, and assessment at the scene, raised the possibility of this being a nonaccidental event. However, difficulties in retrospectively determining the intent of a driver in a vehicle crash, and the nonrecording of, or lack of separate coding for murder-suicides on registers, make determination of the incidence of these types of events extremely difficult. It may be that this is a subcategory of murder-suicide that is underdiagnosed and so is not being registered on central motor vehicle crash databases.<br><br>© 2017 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-1198",
doi="10.1111/1556-4029.13667",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13667"
}