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The autopsy ®ndings in fatal cases of railway collisions of the Bonn Institute of Legal Medicine in 1992±1999 were investigated and compared to the statements in the investigation ®les of the public prosecutor with regard to classi®cation as accident or suicide as well as with regard to type and speed of collision. Of the 38 deaths, 10 were hit in an upright position, 11 fatal collisions affected persons lying outside the track and 13 were hit and overrun lying inside the track. According to the investigation classi®cation 21 persons committed suicide (56%), while 10 died in an accident (26%). Our survey con®rmed the leading role of being over-rolled in a lying position as an indication for suicides, while in accidents the upright hit was most important. With exception of the persons primarily affected between the rails in upright position and over-rolled consecutively an unequivocal assignment of injury patterns to the hit categories was possible. In cases of persons being primarily over-rolled in a lying position especially the criteria (i) opening of body cavities, (ii) organ injuries and (iii) loss of parts of the body allowed for careful conclusion on hit, respectively, overru

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Author

Frank Driever; Peter Schmidt; Burkhard Madea

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0379-0738)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)