title: Decapitation in road traffic accident--a case report.
abstract: A 20-year-old girl along with four of her friends, all in their early 20s, met with a fatal accident in the early hours of the day. Their car was hit by a speeding truck at a crossing. All the occupants of the car sustained multiple injuries and died on the spot. The girl was decapitated in the accident. Her head was recovered outside the mangled remains of the vehicle and the rest of the body was extracted from the co-driver's seat of the damaged vehicle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India. rautjavi@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rautji
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rudra
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dixit
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Bhardwaj
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Dogra
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000473:pathology*