Acute bacterial meningitis as the cause of a traffic accident.
This is a report about a traffic accident without an apparent external cause. The driver responsible for the accident was diagnosed with acute bacterial meningitis. From a forensic aspect the meningitis was determined as the underlying reason for the accident, but it could not be assumed that the driver should have recognized the danger in time.
Verhoff
Marcel A
MA
Department of Legal Medicine, University of Giessen, Frankfurter Str 58, Giessen, Germany. marcel.a.verhoff@forens.med.uni-giessen.de
Bollensen
Edgar
E
Oehmke
Stephan
S
Weiler
Günter
G
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008583:Meningitis, Haemophilus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*