title: Fatal accident during an epileptic automatism.
abstract: The case of an adult male involved in a motor accident, in which the driver of the other car was killed, is described. A plea of epileptic automatism was used successfully to defend the charges.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001332:Automatism / Q000209:etiology*; D001334:Automobile Driving; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand