An Immediate Death by Seat Belt Compression; a Forensic Medicine Report.
Although death is a gradual process, sometimes sudden death occurs in a fraction of a minute or seconds. Here we report a 49-year-old man without any underlying disease, which has instantly died in an accident scene due to compression of neck critical elements by a three-point seat belt. The examination of the body and the results of the autopsy, toxicology and pathology tests are described from the viewpoint of forensic medicine.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Fares
F
Najari
Center of Forensic Medicine researches, Forensic legal Medicine organization, Tehran, Iran.
Ali Mohammad
AM
Alimohammadi
Seat belts; accidents; death; sudden; traffic