Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue: 4

Abdominal transection and egg shelling of skull in a road traffic accident

  • Author:
  • Prateek Rastogi, Y.P. Raghavendra Babu1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 235 to 236

1Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore-575001.

*Corresponding Author: Assistant Professor, E-mail: rastogiprateek@rediffmail.com

Abstract

Fatalities occur in all forms of transportation, but numerically, road-traffic accidents account for the great majority worldwide. Here we present a case of run over injury with egg shelling of the skull and near complete transection of the trunk at the level of umbilicus.

Keywords

Road traffic accident, run over, egg shelling, transection of abdomen