title: Decapitation with egg shelling of the skull in a road traffic accident: a case report.
abstract: A 40-year-old lady was found dead on a road early one morning. She had allegedly been run over by a speeding vehicle. The head of the deceased had been decapitated, with egg shelling of the skull from the scalp and face. The skull was lying a little distance away from the rest of the body. Although decapitation is not an unknown entity in a road traffic accident, subsequent egg shelling of the skull, leaving behind scalp and face tissue, has not been reported in a road traffic accident in the forensic literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology AIIMS, New Delhi-110029, India.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Behera
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rautji
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Dogra
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D049248:Decapitation / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D005151:Facial Injuries; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012535:Scalp / Q000293:injuries; D012886:Skull / Q000293:injuries