Coronial

286 results for multiple traumatic injuries

VIChospital2018-06-04

Finding into death of Bridget Louise Jones

18y · Female·Head injury

…Swanston Street, Carlton on 28 March 2013 during high winds (80-100 km/hr). She sustained severe head and multiple other injuries and underwent emergency neurosurgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Her injuries were deemed…

neurosurgeryemergency medicinesystemproceduralmorphine
NSW2015-07-10

Inquest into the death of Tyrone Marley Gilks

19y · Male·chest injuries caused by blunt force trauma suffered in a high speed motorcycle …

Tyrone Gilks, 19, a professional freestyle motocross rider, died from chest injuries after a motorcycle long-distance jump attempt at Maitland Showground. His motorcycle had insufficient spe…

trauma surgeryintensive caresystemcommunication
VIC2020-11-27

Finding into death of AC

19y · Male·Injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (driver)

AC, a 19-year-old probationary driver, died in a motor vehicle collision on an unsealed rural road after consuming approximately 8 standard drinks over several hours. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.10–0.11 g/100mL…

forensic medicinealcohol
VICcommunity2023-02-16

Finding into death of Shane Ronald Dennis Brown

30y · Male·Methamphetamine toxicity in the setting of a stabbing

…pril 2021 following a physical altercation at a residential address in Melton, Victoria. Autopsy revealed multiple stab wounds that were insufficient to cause death. Toxicological analysis showed significantly elevated m…

forensic medicineemergency medicinemethamphetamine
SAaged care2021-06-30

Coroner's Finding: KOLAN Zygmunt

91y · Male·intracranial haemorrhage (subdural, subarachnoid and parenchymal) complicating r…

…zheimer's dementia died from intracranial haemorrhage following recurrent falls at a nursing home. He had multiple comorbidities including metastatic prostate cancer, metallic aortic valve replacement requiring anticoagu…

geriatric medicineneurosurgerywarfarin
TAShospital2022-02-28

Coroner's Finding: Hassanloo, Saeed

27y · Male·traumatic injuries and/or drowning from jumping from Tasman Bridge

…Bridge. He had a complex psychiatric history including depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorder, with multiple self-harm episodes. His second psychiatric hospital admission for treatment-resistant depression ended wi…

psychiatryemergency medicine
TAScommunity2019-10-15

Coroner's Finding: Roberts, Anna Jane and Stanley, Brett John

Unknown·Multiple traumatic injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash

Two adults died in a motor vehicle crash on 14 May 2017 when Brett Stanley's Subaru crossed the centre line and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle. Stanley had a blood alcohol level of 0.128 g/100ml (exceeding leg…

alcohol
TAS2016-07-25

Coroner's Finding: Kupsch, Jessica Ann

29y · Female·Multiple severe blunt traumatic injuries to the face, neck and head

… a non-contact family violence order preventing contact, Tunks breached it and fatally assaulted her with multiple blunt force injuries to her head and face. The coroner identified two critical failures by Tasmania Polic…

systemdelay
VIChome2021-12-08

Finding into death of Mark Clinton Edwards

52y · Male·Stab injuries to the chest

Mark Edwards, a 52-year-old man, died by suicide via stab injuries to the chest on 11 December 2020. He had suffered a workplace injury in 2007 resulting in amputation of h…

general practiceorthopaedic surgerydiagnosticcommunicationamitriptyline
TAS2016-11-10

Coroner's Finding: Hickman, Peter

36y · Male·Multiple injuries following a motor vehicle crash; major head trauma with injury…

Peter Hickman, aged 36, died on 13 July 2013 from major head trauma sustained in a high-speed motor vehicle crash on West Tamar Highway, Tasmania. Driving at a minimum of 100 km/h, his vehicle veered off the road, struck…

methamphetamine
VIChospital2015-02-16

Finding into death of Dianne Willma MacIntyre

18y · Female·Injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision (passenger)

An 18-year-old female died from injuries sustained as a passenger in a motor vehicle collision on a poorly maintained road. The vehicle struck a p…

emergency medicinetrauma surgerysystem
WAcommunity2020-12-30

Inquest into the Death of Child JM (Name Subject to Suppression Order)

16y · Male·multiple injuries

…tection Order (Until 18) was a passenger in a stolen vehicle being driven by his friend. Police attempted multiple vehicle intercepts during a series of evade police driving incidents lasting approximately 10 minutes. Th…

emergency medicinetrauma surgerycannabis
TAScommunity2020-08-26

Coroner's Finding: Harmon, Trinton John

43y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash

…y a vehicle driven by Simone Bridges while walking on the South Arm Highway at night. He sustained fatal traumatic injuries with death essentially instantaneous from severe head and thoracic trauma. Bridges did not stop…

communicationdelayalcohol
WAcommunity2015-01-08

Inquest into the Deaths of Steven Walter McLean and Shane Henry Wallam

21y · Male·Steven McLean: Head and Neck Injury (cervical spine separation from skull with b…

Two young Aboriginal men, Steven McLean (21) and Shane Wallam (20), died in a motor vehicle crash on 30 April 2011 near Carrabin, WA, while driving a stolen vehicle at dangerous speeds. Both were severely intoxicated by …

alcohol
VIChome2025-06-24

Finding into death of Jessica Geddes

27y · Female·Complications of multiple blunt force injuries

Jessica Geddes, 27, was killed by her partner Robert Rickerby through multiple blunt force injuries on 6 November 2020. The autopsy revealed extensive acute, subacute and chronic injur…

general practicepsychiatrydiagnosticsystemmethamphetamine
VIC2025-02-18

Finding into death of Cornelia Styner-Bolliger

57y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident

…eft-hand driving, road design, and vehicle handling. No clinical interventions could have prevented this traumatic injury; death was instantaneous.

SAcommunity2000-03-13

Coroner's Finding: STRANGWAYS Kenneth Charles

34y · Male·aspiration pneumonia following seizure with concomitant global severe anoxic enc…

Kenneth Strangways, a 34-year-old Aboriginal man with post-traumatic epilepsy, organic brain damage from head injuries, alcoholism and psychiatric illness, died from aspirat…

psychiatryneurosurgerycommunicationsystemanticonvulsant medications
VIChome2010-02-25

Finding into death of RITA MARY BYRNE

77y · Female·neck compression

…d his cannabis cultivation to police (she had not). He entered her home, inflicted fatal neck compression injuries, and set a petrol fire to conceal the crime. The coroner's investigation revealed Westbrook's guilt throu…

VIC2024-11-20

Finding into death of Kerry Kathleen Capes

69y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (passenger)

Kerry Kathleen Capes, aged 69, died as a passenger in a motor vehicle accident when a Subaru failed to give way at the intersection of Wenkes Road and the Hume Freeway, colliding with a truck travelling at 98 km/h. The S…

VIC2011-02-08

Finding into death of Wei Han Chang

33y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (driver)

Wei Han Chang, a 33-year-old chef, died instantly in a head-on motor vehicle collision on the Eastern Freeway when struck by a vehicle driven by an intoxicated driver travelling in the wrong direction. Mr Chang was drivi…

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