439 results for “traumatic injuries”
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…
37y · Male·Complications of electrocution and injuries sustained in a fall
Gregory Roberts, a 37-year-old builder, died from complications of electrocution and injuries sustained in a fall after inadvertently touching a 22,000-volt high-voltage aerial powerline with a metal…
34y · Male·cerebral destruction and fractured skull sustained in motor vehicle accident wit…
Troy Jason Howse (34M) died from massive head injuries (cerebral destruction and fractured skull) sustained when a Ford Falcon vehicle in which he was a passeng…
23y · Male·blunt force head injuries sustained when thrown from his horse during a race
A 23-year-old jockey, Reece Potter, died from severe head injuries sustained when thrown from his horse during a race at Tottenham Picnic Races on 12 March 2011. The horse …
Unknown·Multiple blunt injuries sustained in motor vehicle accident (primary causes: Jar…
Four young Aboriginal people died following a motor vehicle accident on a remote unsealed road. The driver, who was unlicensed and inexperienced with significant neuromuscular conditions affecting motor control, was trav…
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…
18y · Female·Head injury
…, 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 non-recoverabl…
8y · Female·Multiple injuries
… while in the school playground at Pitt Town Public School on 21 February 2014, sustaining multiple fatal injuries. An arborist's post-incident inspection revealed extensive fungal decay affecting two-thirds of the branc…
55y · Male·Cerebral trauma associated with substantial skull base fracture sustained in mot…
…rake locked, causing the motorcycle to slide and high-side, ejecting him onto the roadway with fatal head injuries. The coroner found the motorcycle was mechanically sound, the helmet compliant, weather and road conditio…
76y · Male·Chest and pelvic injuries sustained in a ride-on lawn mower incident
A 76-year-old man died from chest and pelvic injuries sustained when a ride-on mower he was operating rolled over while towing a heavily laden trailer (>200 kg…
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.
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…
Male·traumatic head and neck injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision
Three young men—Simon Lovitt (28), Shaun Law (16), and Cao Vo (18)—died in a motor vehicle collision on Malvern Road, Glen Iris on 19 June 2002. Lovitt was driving a stolen Ford Falcon at high speed on the wrong side of …
27y · Male·Multiple head, chest, pelvic and limb injuries sustained in a motor vehicle cras…
… lane, colliding head-on with a southbound VW Golf. All three occupants of the Toyota died from multiple traumatic injuries: Nunn, Andrew Everett (28 years), and Madilyn Baird (19 years). The crash was entirely preventa…
60y · Male·Neck injury, specifically fracture of the odontoid peg of the second cervical ve…
…ired. Blood alcohol content of 0.12% indicated intoxication. The clinical lesson is recognition that neck injuries from blunt trauma can cause catastrophic spinal cord damage with rapid deterioration; however, this death…
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…
36y · Female·traumatic head injuries from multiple assaults perpetrated by domestic violence …
Noelene Beutel died from severe head injuries inflicted by her domestic violence partner in 2011. Although she had engaged with police, GPs, hospitals,…
38y · Male·hanging
…found deceased by hanging on 20 July 2020. Post-mortem neuropathology confirmed severe stage III chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He experienced numerous head knocks during football and sustained a serious knocko…
Female·Gunshot wound to the chest
…cant psychiatric harm from the incident. A consultant psychiatrist reported both officers had psychiatric injuries with risk of exacerbation if required to testify orally. The State Coroner accepted the medical evidence …
13y · Female·Multiple injuries due to motor vehicle accident
A 13-year-old Aboriginal girl in residential care absconded with a vehicle after an extended violent altercation with youth workers and died in a high-speed motor vehicle crash. She had extensive trauma history, PTSD, re…
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