PEDESTRIAN ELECTRIC SCOOTER FATALITY: CASE OF EXPERT PRACTICE

Abstract

Relevance: Electric scooters are one of the most popular categories of means of individual mobility. The active use of this two-wheeled transport on sidewalks and public roads naturally affects the number of road "incidents," including fatal ones. There is no information about the damage resulting from the collision of electric scooters with pedestrians, and the question of the most "traumatic" parts of the human body with such injuries remains open today. Case presentation: Gr-n A., 75, suffered a fatal brain injury when he was run over by a face driving an electric scooter. He was hospitalized in a medical institution, where he subsequently died. During the autopsy, changes were found to allow us to speak about the exact mechanism of their formation in conditions of scooter injury. Conclusion: According to the literature, injuries associated with the participation of electric scooters occur mainly when falling with the formation of fractures of the bones of the upper and lower extremities. According to various authors, torso injury is extremely rare, and the nature of damage and the category of victims in the studies, as a rule, are not detailed. This case confirms the possibility of forming primary and secondary contact injuries to various parts of the body of a pedestrian. In addition, the case allows you to think about the possibility of identifying the means of individual mobility by the presence of a steering wheel.