@article{ref1,
title="The forensic pathologist and the determination of driver versus passenger in motor vehicle collisions. the need to examine injury mechanisms, occupant kinematics, vehicle dynamics, and trace evidence",
journal="American journal of forensic medicine and pathology",
year="1989",
author="Smock, W. S. and Nichols, G. R. and Fuller, P. M. and Weakley-Jones, Barbara",
volume="10",
number="2",
pages="105-114",
abstract="Five cases of vehicular homicide are presented in which the determination of an occupant's role in a motor vehicle collision was an important medicolegal question. The identification of the occupant's role in a motor vehicle collision can be determined by the forensic pathologist. The investigation that coordinates an examination of injury mechanisms, occupant kinematics, vehicle dynamics, and trace evidence will facilitate such a determination. This determination protects the innocent passenger, when faced with criminal or civil charges, from being falsely prosecuted as the driver. The examination of the above-mentioned components in a multi-occupant collision takes on particular forensic importance when a surviving driver claims to be a passenger: the victim rather than the assailant.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0195-7910",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}