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16y · Female·Massive head injury due to motor vehicle accident
Emily Jade Payne, 16, died from massive head injuries sustained when the vehicle she was travelling in crashed into a tree on a rural unsealed road near Chinchilla. The driver, her 18-year-old cousin, lost control of the…
34y · Male·Drowning due to shallow water blackout
A 34-year-old man died from drowning in a residential swimming pool while practicing breath-holding with hyperventilation, a technique he had used since childhood for spearfishing competitions. The coroner concluded deat…
67y · Male·Multiple injuries due to impact by falling container
Peter Raymond Fenton, 67-year-old master of the tug Kiandra, died when a 98kg insulated food storage container fell 12-13 metres from a ship's crane while being returned to his barge. The container was improperly slung u…
42y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
Michael Sweeney, aged 42, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on 8 February 2013 while on parole. He attended his ex-partner's home in violation of a Domestic Violence Order to see their infant son. Afte…
55y · Male·gastrointestinal haemorrhage due to oesophageal varices due to hepatocellular ca…
Robert McIntosh, a 55-year-old prisoner with undiagnosed cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis C, and hepatocellular carcinoma, died from gastrointestinal haemorrhage and oesophageal varices. While the coroner found that med…
49y · Male·Coronary artery thrombosis due to coronary atherosclerosis
Brad Wilson, 49, collapsed and died from acute coronary thrombosis approximately 40 minutes after police arrest at a polling booth on 7 September 2013. He had severe pre-existing triple-vessel coronary atherosclerosis, s…
90y · Female·Infected sacral ulcer and fluid imbalances in the context of dementia
A 90-year-old woman with dementia, admitted to aged care in September 2012, developed a large necrotic sacral pressure ulcer despite nursing interventions. She was markedly dehydrated and malnourished, repeatedly refusin…
80y · Male·Drowning
An 80-year-old man with severe depression, suicidal ideation, and probable vascular dementia died by drowning after leaving a psychiatric ward. He was appropriately treated with ECT, medication, and placed on an ITO. How…
16y · Male·Hanging (ligature compression of neck)
Two Indigenous young men, JE (16 years) and JJ (16 years), both died by hanging within four months during a suicide cluster in Mackay, Queensland in 2008. JE's death was impulsive, occurring after paint sniffing and alco…
37y · Male·Cardiac dysrhythmia during restraint against a background of significant alcohol…
Neville Reading, a 37-year-old male, died following cardiac dysrhythmia during restraint on 2 November 2013. He had consumed extremely high quantities of alcohol (blood level 0.26) over 22 hours and became violent, assau…
26y · Male·Neck compression from hanging
A 26-year-old man died by hanging in his correctional centre cell on 26 October 2011. He had a history of mixed personality disorder, anxiety, opiate dependence and previous suicide attempt (age 13), but was not assessed…
6y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to drowning
A 6-year-old boy in foster care drowned in a backyard pool after removing his flotation device while his carer was distracted by a visitor. The carer, sitting on a veranda rather than in the pool enclosure as usual, was …
32y · Male·Pulmonary embolism originating from deep vein thrombosis in right calf
A 32-year-old man died from pulmonary embolism six days after emergency appendectomy for perforated appendicitis. VTE prophylaxis was appropriately prescribed. However, the clinical team failed to investigate persistent …
9y · Male·asthma - acute episode of asthma which became increasingly resistant to Ventolin
Hunter Campbell Marr, a 9-year-old with episodic asthma, was admitted on 2 January 2014 with asthma exacerbation. His parents denied or minimised his asthma diagnosis despite previous PICU admission in 2011. During the J…
Female·Multiple injuries due to motor vehicle trauma
Rebecca Louise Fenton died in a motor vehicle collision on the Capricorn Highway near Blackwater, Queensland when her vehicle rear-ended a stationary utility waiting to turn right at an inadequately designed intersection…
Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision; Brett McKenzie was opera…
This finding concerns a reopening of an inquest into four deaths resulting from a multi-occupant motor vehicle crash on 5 January 2008. The original 2012 inquest concluded that Brett McKenzie was the driver of a Honda se…
0y · Female·Morphine toxicity
Tamiya Calais Lievesley, a six-month-old infant, died from morphine toxicity on 2 March 2004. She ingested a fatal dose of morphine, likely administered by one of her parents who were both morphine-dependent. The coroner…
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…
28y · Male·Undetermined but suspicious
Sun Peng, a 28-year-old Chinese national crew member on the vessel Great Talent, disappeared from the ship anchored at Weipa on 23 March 2014. He had sustained a hand laceration after smashing a bowl during an altercatio…
65y · Male·Drowning
William Boyles, aged 65, drowned after attempting to cross Edwards Bridge on his motorcycle during severe flooding on 27 January 2013. Despite road closures being in place and firefighters actively managing the flooded a…
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