title: Vehicle-assisted suicide resulting in complete decapitation.
abstract: A rare case of vehicle-assisted suicide in a 43-year-old man is presented. The man had tied a rope between a fence and his neck and, while seated on the driver's seat, accelerated the vehicle, which resulted in complete decapitation. Earlier that day, the man had tried to bleed himself to death by bottling his own blood in his flat, thus defining the case as secondary complex suicide.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. lisatue@gmx.de
authors.forename: Elisabeth E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Türk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsokos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001336:Automobiles; D049248:Decapitation / Q000473:pathology*; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide