71y · Female·Traumatic closed head injury sustained when pushed to the ground by Robert Frede…
…ently pushed to the ground by Robert Frederick Bowden at New Town, Hobart on 4 October 2014. She struck her head and sustained a traumatic closed head injury with intracranial bleeding. She was transported to Royal Hobar…
74y · Male·traumatic closed head injuries
Errol Adrian Fletcher, a 74-year-old man, died from traumatic closed head injuries sustained when struck by a vehicle while crossing a service station driveway in Huonville on…
20y · Male·Closed head injury
Jason Troy Barber, aged 20, died from severe closed head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision on 3 October 2000. He had been driving a stolen vehic…
36y · Female·Traumatic closed head injury
A 36-year-old theatre nurse died from traumatic closed head injury after jumping from a moving vehicle whilst heavily intoxicated. She had consumed most of a bot…
29y · Male·head injury
…or alert. Despite being resuscitated at the scene and transported to hospital, Forde sustained unsurvivable head injuries. The coroner noted the van lacked an externally audible reversing alarm which would have alerted F…
24y · Male·multiple organ failure resulting from a closed head injury
A 24-year-old Aboriginal man died from multiple organ failure following a closed head injury sustained during a domestic violence incident. After an argument at a licensed club, the decea…
20y · Female·severe closed head injury with associated basal skull fractures
A 20-year-old woman died from severe closed head injury with basal skull fractures after being struck by a motor vehicle. The driver had a blood alcoh…
64y · Male·Closed Head Injury
…n custody at Macquarie Correctional Centre, collapsed during morning muster on 22 March 2021 and struck his head on concrete flooring. CCTV footage captured the collapse, which appeared consistent with a sudden cardiac e…
75y · Male·acute right subdural haemorrhage sustained in a fall
George Triantafilopoulos, a 75-year-old man on warfarin after aortic valve replacement, suffered two head strikes within 24 hours—first falling onto concrete at a supermarket on 14 August 2014, then falling onto c…
18y · Male·multiple injuries
… failing to negotiate a bend while being pursued by police. He was ejected from the vehicle and suffered a closed head injury with subdural haematoma and severe pelvic fractures with blood loss. First aid at the scene wa…
20y · Male·Hinge fracture base of skull and vault of skull fractures with closed head injur…
Joshua Luke Ortlepp, aged 20, died from skull fractures sustained in a motor vehicle collision while being pursued by police. He had consumed alcohol (BAC 0.179%) and cannabis, significantly impairing his driving ability…
18y · Male·Traumatic closed head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision
Samuel John Whitney, aged 18, died from traumatic closed head injuries sustained as a passenger in a motor vehicle collision. The driver, Todd Blackberry, briefly …
23y · Male·traumatic closed head injury (diffuse axonal injury)
A 23-year-old male died from traumatic closed head injury (diffuse axonal injury) following a single-vehicle motor crash. He was speeding (142 km/h in a…
98y · Female·subarachnoid haemorrhage associated with closed head injury from fall
…er. She was found 6 hours after the fall and admitted to hospital, but scans revealed non-survivable brain injury. While this was a tragic accident in an elderly, mobility-impaired patient, the case highlights the import…
19y · Female·Multiple injuries including traumatic closed head injury, blunt trauma of the ch…
A 19-year-old female passenger died from multiple traumatic injuries sustained in a single-vehicle motor crash on 25 March 2020, when the vehicle she was travelling in left the highway and struck a large eucalyptus tree.…
Male·Traumatic closed head injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash
Stephen Wayne Stokie died from traumatic closed head injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on the West Tamar Highway near Exeter, Tasmania. He was ridi…
82y · Female·complications of a closed head injury (operated) sustained in a fall
An 82-year-old woman died from complications of a closed head injury sustained when she fell from a wheelchair while being transported at a zoo. Her husband had le…
14y · Male·closed head injury
A 14-year-old male died from a closed head injury following a high-speed collision while driving a stolen vehicle being pursued by police. The d…
80y · Male·Subdural haematoma from closed head injury sustained in a fall at his residence
…l haematoma sustained in a fall at his home in Tasmania on 11 July 2014, four days after sustaining another head injury. He had mixed Alzheimer's and vascular dementia diagnosed in August 2013, was prone to falls, and wa…
Male·Drowning following closed head and neck injury sustained when aircraft crashed i…
…lbrook while conducting trials of a water extraction process for fire bombing operations. The crash caused closed head and neck injuries that incapacitated him, leading to drowning. The coroner found that the Civil Aviat…
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