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30y · Male·Electrocution from contact with 22,000 volt overhead power lines
Dallas Anderson, a 30-year-old truck driver, was fatally electrocuted on 9 January 2006 when his lime-delivery tipper trailer contacted 22,000-volt overhead power lines on a rural Victoria farm. He had received general i…
51y · Male·Electrocution from high voltage electricity wires
A 51-year-old farmer, John Richard Jones, died from electrocution while acting as a spotter for a tipper truck driver during lime delivery to his Mudgegonga property. The truck trailer contacted a 12,700-volt Single Wire…
34y · Male·The combined effects of restraint, coronary artery atherosclerosis and centripet…
A 34-year-old man died following 10 minutes of restraint by six people at a marina car park after assaulting two staff members. He had significant coronary atherosclerosis (70-75% narrowing) and centripetal obesity. Desp…
17y · Female·unknown causes
Kim Cherie Teer, a 17-year-old woman, disappeared between mid-September and 1 October 1979 while travelling in Australia. She had maintained close contact with her mother through letters and phone calls while hitchhiking…
48y · Male·undetermined
A 48-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, poorly controlled diabetes, sleep apnoea, obesity and cardiomegaly died unexpectedly at a rural hospital following acute psychotic agitation. He had absconded from a menta…
20y · Male·hypertrophic cardiomyopathy shortly after participating in a martial arts traini…
Andrew Habib, aged 20, died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a genetic heart condition causing left ventricular hypertrophy) during martial arts training at a gym despite having been advised to avoid strenuous exercise.…
24y · Male·Drowning
Sean Conway, a 24-year-old experienced swimmer but inexperienced kayaker, drowned after falling from a kayak near Taylors Creek Weir while intoxicated. He had consumed 4-5 beers, vodka, and cannabis throughout the aftern…
3y · Male·Brainstem ischaemia in association with Arnold Chiari malformation
Matthew Whyte, a 3-year-old with Arnold Chiari malformation and hydrocephalus, died from brainstem ischaemia following multiple shunt complications and emergency decompression surgery. The coroner found that after Matthe…
27y · Male·hanging
A 27-year-old man with schizo-affective disorder died by hanging on 22 April 2009 while on a Community Treatment Order (CTO). He had been discharged from psychiatric hospitalization in December 2008 and managed by an out…
21y · Male·Undetermined but of a suspicious nature
Jay Anthony Brogden, 21, disappeared on 21 April 2007 from Cannonvale, Queensland after assaulting his ex-partner Patricia Heath at a family barbeque. He left a friend's residence on foot and has never been seen again. T…
58y · Female·pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury
A 58-year-old woman with autism and severe intellectual disability died from pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest. She had been institutionalised at Graylands Hospita…
47y · Female·Ligature compression of the neck (suicide by hanging)
Tracy Margaret Marshall, a 47-year-old woman admitted to Nickol Bay Hospital as a voluntary patient due to deteriorating mental state and suicidal ideation, left the hospital on 21 February 2011. She drove to a remote lo…
28y · Male·toxicity to heroin
Michael Anthony, aged 28, died from heroin toxicity in a locked toilet cubicle at the Braybrook Hotel on 8-9 March 2011. He had a 13-year history of heroin dependence, complicated by polysubstance use including methylamp…
50y · Female·unascertained
Margery Joyce Taylor, aged 50, disappeared on 7 September 1978 from Warren, NSW. She had a long history of bipolar disorder and depression with prior psychiatric hospitalisations. Two months before disappearance, she was…
0y · Male·Head injury from non-accidental trauma (forced shaking) occurring on 11 May 2009
Baby R, born at 28 weeks gestation, died of non-accidental head injury sustained on 11 May 2009 when forcefully shaken by a person or persons unknown while in parental care. The 5-month-old presented with cardiorespirato…
1y · Female·cystic encephalomalacia
Lilly Ella Daw, born at 27 weeks gestation as a monochorionic diamniotic twin following intrauterine death of her co-twin, died at one month of age from cystic encephalomalacia. The surviving twin had a documented 20% ri…
Male·Head injuries sustained in motor vehicle accident
Geoffrey Candlin died when struck by a heavy vehicle (B-double truck) on the Bruce Highway in poor weather conditions. The prime mover veered left off the wet road at 100 km/h, and whilst being steered back onto the road…
3y · Male·Massive cerebral trauma due to multiple fractures of the skull due to crush inju…
A three-year-old boy died after being run over by a reversing vehicle on a rural property. The child exited an unrestrained car seat while the driver refuelled the vehicle 50 metres away, likely accessing the front passe…
28y · Female·hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in association with pulmonary hype…
Petra Zele, a 28-year-old woman, died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest due to acute pulmonary embolism superimposed on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. She presented to Fremantle Hospital …
41y · Male·blunt head trauma sustained in motor vehicle collision
James William Venning, aged 41, died when his fully loaded semi-trailer crashed at the base of the South-Eastern Freeway, Adelaide, after becoming uncontrollable during descent. His gearbox was in neutral, forcing relian…
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