Decapitation with egg shelling of the skull in a road traffic accident: a case report

Med Sci Law. 2008 Jan;48(1):87-8. doi: 10.1258/rsmmsl.48.1.87.

Abstract

A 40-year-old lady was found dead on a road early one morning. She had allegedly been run over by a speeding vehicle. The head of the deceased had been decapitated, with egg shelling of the skull from the scalp and face. The skull was lying a little distance away from the rest of the body. Although decapitation is not an unknown entity in a road traffic accident, subsequent egg shelling of the skull, leaving behind scalp and face tissue, has not been reported in a road traffic accident in the forensic literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic*
  • Adult
  • Decapitation / mortality
  • Decapitation / pathology*
  • Facial Injuries
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • India
  • Scalp / injuries
  • Skull / injuries