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Impaling-type head injury in a road traffic incident
1Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Medical School.
Medicine, Science, and the Law
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
A fatal impaling-type head injury is described in a young man, sustained when he crashed his car while intoxicated, his head being transfixed by a broken wooden fence post. This shattered the facial bones and damaged the brain stem. Other published instances of impaling head injuries are discussed.