     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON OCT. 10, 1996 ABOUT 8:30 PM THE DECEASED WAS THE UNRESTRAINED DRIVER OF AN 88 CHEVY PICK-UP TRUCK TRAVELING NORTH ON HIALEAH GARDENS BOULEVARD WHEN HE COLLIDED WITH A STEP VAN THAT WAS TRAVELING WEST ON NW 138TH STREET.  THE DECEDENT'S VEHICLE WAS REDIRECTED AND STRUCK A CONCRETE UTILITY POLE.  THE DECEASED WAS THROWN INTO HIS WINDSHIELD.  
     HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL BY AIR RESCUE.  HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R UNRESPONSIVE WITH LABORED/ASSISTED BREATHING.  HE WAS ASSESSED WITH MULTIPLE ABRASIONS AND LACERATIONS TO HEAD, CONTUSION TO RIGHT HUMERAL AREA AND A HEMATOMA TO PARIETAL/OCCIPITAL AREA OF RIGHT HEAD.  AN ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND REVEALED A RIGHT LOBE LIVER LACERATION WITH INTRAPARENCHYMAL HEMORRHAGE AND SHATTERED RIGHT KIDNEY.  A CT BRAIN SCAN REVEALED MULTIPLE BRAIN CONTUSIONS.  HE WAS TRANSFUSED SEVERAL TIMES AND ADMITTED TO TRAUMA I.C.U.  HE UNDERWENT INTUBATION BY DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY, BUT REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE.  ON OCT. 11, 1996 HE WENT INTO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION AND DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:00 AM.