TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Familial vehicular murder-suicide
JO  - Journal of forensic sciences
A1  - Byard, Roger W.
A1  - O'Donovan, Siobhan
A1  - van den Huevel, Corinna
A1  - Baldock, Matthew Robert Justin
SP  - 1307
EP  - 1308
VL  - 63
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13667
ID  - ref1
ER  -