Structural circumstances in the main types of fatal concomitant injury in children

On the material of forensic research 284 corpses of children (108 own observations, 176 archive acts), died as a result of falling from height, hitting a moving car, drive to the wheels and the injury in a car, a study of the structure damage. Investigated the frequency and distribution of damage to the skin, skeletal and organ separate areas of the body, carried out the combined assessment of the extent of the damage when the considered variants of the circumstances of the injury. It is established that the children injured in the car to head injury in various manifestations, found in 100 % of cases. Damage to other areas of the body are less frequent than when hit by a car, moving its wheels and when falling from a height. In this regard, the aggregate amount of damages in case of injury in a car in children was less than for other types of trauma. The distribution of damage between the areas marked in cases of moving the wheels of the car; on trauma to the head, chest and limbs accounted for the same proportion of the damage. Under the circumstances spine-spinal cord injury, damage, neck, abdomen and pelvis met more frequently than other considered variants of injury. In cases of moving the wheels of the car and marked the largest amount of damage that significantly exceeds (рφ < 0,001) indicators when falling from a height, the shock of your vehicle and injury in his cabin.

children, concomitant injury, mortal injury