454 results for “motor vehicle injury”
Female·Multiple injuries due to motor vehicle collision
… also driving with a suspended licence. The coroner found he likely experienced a micro-sleep causing the vehicle to drift. Fuller was an attentive, responsible driver who took evasive action but could not avoid the col…
89y · Female·Multiple injuries including fractured skull, traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage …
An 89-year-old woman died from massive traumatic injuries sustained when struck by a bus while crossing a street in Burnie, Tasmania. She had the green pedestrian light and was lawfully crossing the intersection when str…
49y · Female·Unascertained (natural)
…ing episode and acute respiratory distress. She had recently been hospitalized for serious injuries from a motor vehicle accident (fractured ribs, pneumothorax, fractured pelvis) and experienced breathing difficulties d…
Male·Robert Harradine: multiple injuries including brain stem transection, cerebral l…
Two teenagers died following a motor vehicle collision on 9 August 2000 in Adelaide. Robert Harradine (16) sustained fatal multiple injuries; A…
26y · Male·Mechanical asphyxia (chest crushed by car)
…yxia when his chest was crushed by a car while working underneath it in a rural shed. He had reversed the vehicle onto homemade timber ramps without proper safety precautions: no wheel chocks, handbrake disengaged, and …
27y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained as a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle; specifica…
Jari Wise, aged 27, died on 29 February 2020 when struck by a vehicle driven by Melissa Oates at Huonville, Tasmania. Mr Wise was intoxicated (BAC 0.220%, THC present), wearin…
63y · Male·blunt head and chest trauma from motor vehicle collision
…and died from blunt head and chest trauma. The collision occurred because Rice was unable to maintain his vehicle within the marked lane, and was driving erratically despite a clear road with visible cyclist. Rice had f…
4y · Unknown·Head and chest injuries sustained when run over by a garbage truck
…factors identified. The case highlights the inherent dangers of young children riding bicycles near large vehicles with limited visibility.
14y · Male·Retroperitoneal haemorrhage secondary to abdominal injuries sustained in a motor…
…4-year-old boy riding an illegally high-powered e-scooter (capable of 40-50 km/h) collided with a utility vehicle at a residential intersection. The e-scooter exceeded legal speed limits and age restrictions under Victo…
7y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to reflex cardiac arrest triggered by blunt…
A 7-year-old boy died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following a motor vehicle collision. He was seated on an unanchored booster seat and wearing an adult seatbelt. During the c…
26y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when she lost control of her car and crashed into a …
…esearch shows mobile phone use increases collision risk four-fold and contributes to approximately 25% of vehicle crashes. The coroner recommends road safety audits to identify any improvements, though this particular c…
75y · Female·Avulsion of the inferior vena cava from the heart due to severe crush injury of …
…juries sustained when her 1982 Mitsubishi Sigma sedan reversed unexpectedly whilst she was behind it. The vehicle's automatic transmission selector linkage had worn bushes, allowing the transmission to remain in Reverse…
65y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained after a rock entered the windscreen and struck her w…
…65, died from severe head injuries when a large granite rock entered the windscreen of a four-wheel-drive vehicle while she was a passenger. The rock had been lying on the Arnhem Highway for at least 30 minutes before t…
Multiple injuries (Armstrong and Eades); complications of head injury (De Agrela…
Three young people died in a high-speed motor vehicle crash on 2-4 December 2015 in Western Australia. The driver, Matthew Conduit, was under the influe…
78y · Male·head injury sustained when struck by a car
…ression, and splenectomy was struck by a car while crossing a street in Sydenham. He sustained severe head injury with bilateral frontal and temporal haemorrhagic contusions and skull fractures. Despite emergency transpo…
37y · Female·Christine Nan Leonardi: massive soft tissue and bony injury due to motor vehicle…
…downhill stretch of road. The crane operator, an experienced driver, was travelling at 80-95km/h when the vehicle began 'fishtailing'. He attempted to regain control by accelerating and steering sharply, but the crane c…
57y · Male·penetrating injury to the neck sustained from a piece of metal propelled from a …
Mr Huy Neng Ngo, age 57, died on 13 July 2017 from a penetrating neck injury caused by a metal fragment propelled from a defective Takata airbag that ruptured during a minor motor veh…
47y · Male·Hypovolaemic shock due to exsanguination from traumatic rupture of femoral arter…
… was reversed by a 19-year-old yard hand with minimal training. The driver should have checked behind the vehicle or used a spotter—standard practice outlined in the Plant Code of Practice. Critical clinical lessons: th…
63y · Male·Cerebral infarction complicating vertebral artery dissection following motor veh…
Keith Walter Sharp, 63, sustained a motor vehicle collision causing vertebral artery dissection and subsequent cerebral infarction. At Albury Base H…
25y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a bicycle incident (rider)
Bailey Peer Harry, a 25-year-old Wiradjuri man, was killed in a bicycle-motor vehicle collision. He rode a BMX bicycle without helmet, lights, reflectors or functional brakes, wearing …
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