title: [Pedestrian dragged under a truck].
abstract: A traffic accident is described, involving a pedestrian who was at first hit and subsequently hooked up by his clothing by a suspension element of a low-floor truck trailer and dragged along a road for the distance of 3500 m. Autopsy demonstrated that the pedestrian died of cerebro-cranial injuries, inflicted while he had been hit by the truck. Additionally, the frontal surface of his body demonstrated external injuries typical for dragging of the body along the roadway. Before being dragged, the pedestrian was hit by the front of the vehicle, when he was in a sitting position, or was rising or else was in a recumbent position with an elevated head and trunk. Traffic accidents of the type were seldom described in the national and foreign literature.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry i Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej Uniwersytetu Medycznego im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu. czaba@ump.edu.pl
authors.forename: Czesław
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zaba
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lewandowski
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kołowski
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tezyk
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D002423:Cause of Death; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D022125:Lacerations / Q000473:pathology*; D018986:Motor Vehicles