title: Acute bacterial meningitis as the cause of a traffic accident.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, University of Giessen, Frankfurter Str 58, Giessen, Germany. marcel.a.verhoff@forens.med.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: Marcel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Verhoff
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bollensen
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oehmke
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Weiler
mesh_terms: 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*