TY - JOUR PY - 2004// TI - Fatal impalement with transfixion of the neck in a road traffic accident JO - American journal of forensic medicine and pathology A1 - Di Nunno, Nunzio A1 - Solarino, Biagio A1 - Costantinides, F. A1 - Di Nunno, Cosimo SP - 164 EP - 168 VL - 25 IS - 2 N2 - The authors describe a singular case of fatal impalement due to penetration of a metal tube at the level of the neck in a victim of a road traffic accident. The man was traveling in the passenger seat ("death seat") of a car that hit the parapet of a bridge head on; death was attributed to hemorrhagic shock, which was brought on virtually instantly at the moment of impact.

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