     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON JULY 1, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING TAMIAMI TRAIL FROM NORTH TO SOUTH IN THE AREA OF SW 132ND AVENUE.  A 96 FREIGHTLINER TRACTOR TRAILER WAS TRAVELING WEST ON TAMIAMI TRAIL.  SUDDENLY THE DECEASED STEPPED INTO THE PATH OF THE TRACTOR TRAILER.  THE DRIVER TOOK EVASIVE ACTION, BUT THE TAIL OF THE TRAILER SIDESWIPED THE DECEASED, KNOCKING HIM TO THE PAVEMENT.  THE RIGHT REAR TIRES OF THE TRAILER RAN OVER HIS LEGS AND HE WAS DRAGGED ABOUT FIVE FEET.  HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
     HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS UPON ARRIVAL, BUT REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS DURING INITIAL ASSESSMENT.  DIAGNOSED WITH LEFT PARIETAL SKULL FRACTURE, LEFT LATERAL ORBITAL FRACTURE, A LEFT ZYGOMATIC MAXILLARY COMPLEX FRACTURE AND POSITIVE FOR A LEFT SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE. 
     HIS CONDITION GRADUALLY DETERIORATED AND ON JULY 30, 1996 HE HAD TO UNDERGO A TRACHEOSTOMY TO HOOK UP VENTILATOR.  HIS WOUNDS HAD BEEN IRRIGATED AND DEBRIDED SEVERAL TIMES.  ON AUG. 2, 1996 HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE TO VERBAL OR TACTILE STIMULI.  ON AUG. 4, 1996 HE BECAME PULSELESS WITH NO VITAL SIGNS AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:55 AM.
     HE HAD A HISTORY OF DEPRESSION.
     
                            ***** REFILED ON AUGUST 19, 1996 ***** [BAR]
 
                            ***** AMENDED ON APRIL 26, 1997 ****** [BAR]