Perdekamp Markus Grosse, Schmidt Ulrike, Pollak Stefan
Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Freiburg.
Arch Kriminol. 2002 Jan-Feb;209(1-2):28-35.
The authors report on a fatal pedestrian accident in which the victim lay on the street and got under a car being run over by one of the front wheels. Both the car driver and the killed pedestrian were strongly alcohol-intoxicated at the time of the accident (2.45 a.m.). After the car had come to a standstill, the pedestrian remained trapped under the car until she was rescued by the fire brigade. On the basis of the autopsy findings and the technical expert opinion it could be reconstructed that the pedestrian's death was not caused by the consequences of being run over by the car, but by the subsequent compression of her thorax in the final accident position.
