TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Deaths on the roads that are not traffic accidents
JO  - Journal of traffic medicine
A1  - Pueschel, Klaus
A1  - Miltner, E.
A1  - Kinzinger, R
A1  - Truebner, K
SP  - 33
EP  - 38
VL  - 24
IS  - 1-2
N2  - Objective: This study was undertaken to identify the portion of deaths on the road that were not killed by traffic accidents.     Methods: This retrospective study includes all legal autopsies which have been carried out by the pathologists in Essen from 1973 to 1989 and Hamburg from 1984 to 1989, and which were related to public traffic.     Results: 1,045 traffic deaths that occurred in the centre of the Ruhrgebiet and Hamburg were analysed retrospectively. 961 deaths (91.1%) were road accidents in the actual sense; in 65 cases (6.2%) a natural cause of death was found, 23 cases (2.2%) were classified as suicides and 5 cases (0.5%) of supposed traffic accidents proved to be homicides.     Conclusions: It is demonstrated that a considerable number of cases, at first thought to be accidents, exhibited to be natural deaths, suicides or even killing offences. Close cooperation between the technical and forensic experts and their consultation in the first investigation at the accident site would be the best way to detect deaths on the road that are not traffic accidents.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0345-5564
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -