Coronial

7 results for swimming impairment

QLDcommunity2008-05-19

Mountford-Smith, Trevor Bertram

58y · Male·drowning

…27 March 2003 and is presumed to have drowned. He had recently been diagnosed with significant cognitive impairment affecting information processing and memory following complaints of fatigue and short-term memory loss. …

infectious diseasesneurology
VICcommunity2023-06-05

Finding into death of Peter Boyle

61y · Male·Drowning

… to free a sail line entangled in his yacht's propeller. He had Parkinson's disease affecting balance and swimming ability, wore only underwear without a life jacket, and misjudged the vessel's drift velocity. A horsesho…

occupational and environmental healthneurologysystemamantadine
TAScommunity2020-03-11

Coroner's Finding: Wood, Glenn Thomas

56y · Male·drowning

…s avoidable, emphasising that fishing alone at night whilst intoxicated without a PFD, combined with poor swimming ability and cold water, made drowning almost inevitable. The case highlights the dangers of alcohol consu…

VICcommunity2026-03-18

Finding into death of NJC

17y · Male·drowning

NJC, aged 17, drowned in Lake Nagambie while subject to a Care by Secretary Order. He was in stable kinship care with his sister and receiving appropriate support from Child Protection and Anglicare. At a family wedding …

forensic medicineaddiction medicinealcohol
TAS2018-05-29

Coroner's Finding: Simmons, Lawrence John

24y · Male·Unable to determine; probable drowning

…determine the cause of death without forensic pathology evidence. The clinical lesson relates to alcohol impairment impairing judgement and swimming ability, combined with absence of basic safety equipment (life jacket) …

alcohol
QLDcommunity2010-06-24

Child at Rockhampton

9y · Male·Drowning

A 9-year-old boy with poor swimming ability and mild intellectual impairment drowned at a waterpark after entering the deep end to use an inf…

systemcommunication
NSWcommunity2021-05-21

Inquest into the death of Pono Wairua Aperahama

17y · Male·Cardiac arrhythmia during restraint, with previous traumatic brain injury as a s…

…tic brain injury and moderate intellectual disability, died from cardiac arrhythmia during restraint at a swimming pool. His escalating behaviour in 2017—triggered by school exclusion, uncertainty about adult placement, …

neurologypsychiatrysystemcommunication

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