192 results for “blunt force injury”
36y · Male·Intra-abdominal haemorrhage due to rupture of liver and portal vein; also sustai…
…wing a Court of Appeal decision, examined how he died. The Coroner found that fatal injuries resulted from forceful pressure to the upper abdomen either accidentally during a fall when Doomadgee and Senior Sergeant Hurl…
50y · Male·Global hypoxic brain injury suffered during cardiac and respiratory arrest cause…
…d cardiorespiratory arrest at 3:21pm while in the watchhouse and died the following day from hypoxic brain injury. Medical experts concluded hospitalisation after the initial QAS assessment would likely have prevented de…
47y · Male·massive haemorrhage due to a tear to the aorta sustained from blunt force chest …
A 47-year-old commercial realtor was fatally struck by an aluminium privacy screen dislodged from a 22-storey apartment building during severe weather (wind gusts of 96 km/h). The screen was inadequately fixed to the bal…
20y · Male·hypoxic encephalopathy
…at 1:25am, 65 minutes later, was the tube found to be in the oesophagus and replaced. Severe hypoxic brain injury resulted; he died 27 January. The coroner found the death preventable through culture of cross-checking in…
78y · Female·Blunt force trauma to the head caused by a compressor from a refrigeration unit …
Margaret Wishart, aged 78, died instantly on 5 June 2007 when a semi-trailer driven by Christian Scholl collided with a V/Line passenger train at a level crossing near Kerang, Victoria. The compressor from the refrigerat…
24y · Female·Head injury from repeated blunt force trauma
A 24-year-old woman was fatally assaulted by her intimate partner after a period of escalating domestic and family violence. The perpetrator had a documented history of violent DFV across multiple relationships, with pri…
Female·Domestic violence homicides: Miss Yunupiŋu—stab wound to chest; Ngeygo Ragurrk—b…
This landmark coronial finding examines four domestic violence deaths of Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory—Miss Yunupiŋu (2018), Ngeygo Ragurrk (2019), Kumarn Rubuntja (2021), and Kumanjayi Haywood (2021)—all ki…
56y · Male·head injuries inflicted by blunt force trauma
56-year-old John Douglas Simpson-Willson was fatally assaulted in Brisbane's Botanical Gardens on 3 June 2005 by Daniel Pattel, released from prison five days earlier. Pattel had expressed clear intentions to kill someon…
75y · Female·Plastic bag asphyxia in the setting of blunt force head injury
EW, aged 75, died from asphyxiation in July 2019 after being struck by her husband MW, who then took his own life. EW had advancing dementia and severe mobility limitations, with MW as her sole carer. The coroner found t…
34y · Female·Head injuries from blunt force trauma (multiple blows from axe); abdominal injur…
A 34-year-old pregnant woman died from severe head and abdominal injuries inflicted by her estranged partner in a domestic violence homicide. The death followed escalating domestic and family violence (DFV) including phy…
9y · Male·Traumatic head injury with diffuse cerebral swelling and subdural haemorrhage ca…
Bradyn Dillon, aged 9, was brutally beaten to death by his father Graham Dillon in February 2016. The inquest examined how multiple agencies—police, child protection, education, and health services—failed to protect him …
5y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a collision between a semi-trailer and a V/Line p…
A semi-trailer collided with a V/Line passenger train at a level crossing near Kerang on 5 June 2007, killing 11 passengers instantly or within hours. The collision was caused by a heavy vehicle driver unfamiliar with th…
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