Forensic Sciences: Atlases

Accident reconstruction is but one phase of road traffic fatality (RTF) cases. Even as police officers draw their last diagram, interview their last witness, and reconstruct their final scenario, a different team of investigators works diligently on solving another puzzle: determining how the victims actually died. Investigation of Road Traffic Fatalities: An Atlas covers the issues that face medical examiners and coroners in determining the nature and extent of RTF injuries as well as the cause, manner, and circumstances of death. Also ideal for medicolegal death investigators and law enforcement personnel who work with medical examiners and coroners during RTF investigations, this Atlas covers everything from "Typical road traffic fatality injuries" to "Injuries caused by safety/restraint devices" and "Autopsy and toxicology testing."

This CD-ROM atlas illustrates and gives good visual coverage of the various frequently encountered aspects of natural and violent deaths, to remind of the limitations and pitfalls in interpretation of the findings, as well as to demonstrate other more rarely seen cases and injuries of forensic importance in the living. It is a database containing more than 1600 images of forensic pathological cases with descriptions. These include deaths by violence, suicide, natural deaths and accidents, as well as examinations of living persons. Each image in the database has a number of attributes that together classify the content of the image. Typical attributes are Chapter (categorising the images into chapters and sub-chapters), Body region, Cause of death, Mode of death, Object (weapons, clothing etc.).