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Forensic Evaluation of Motor Vehicle Accidents

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Vehicle occupants wearing seatbelts may sustain injury to the cervical spine as a result of abrupt deceleration as well as blunt trauma to the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Clavicular and humeral fractures are more common in passengers than in drivers. Manual of Forensic Emergency Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians. 1988;28:498–501.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

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" The ideal is a fully funded Medical Examiner's department when the incumbent or staff are board-certified Forensic Pathologists. Regardless, there are an insufficient number of qualified forensic pathologists to assume office everywhere. Do not place the name "John/Jane Doe" on the signed death certificate. ·