     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON JULY 25, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE TRAVELING EASTBOUND ON NW 103RD STREET IN THE AREA OF 2ND AVENUE WHEN HE LEFT THE ROADWAY AND STRUCK A TREE ON THE SWALE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 103RD STREET.  THE MEDICATIONS VASOTEC AND ZERIT WERE FOUND ON THE DECEASED.  IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ACCIDENT HE EXITED HIS VEHICLE AND SPOKE TO POLICE, BUT BECAME UNRESPONSIVE BY THE TIME FIRE RESCUE ARRIVED.  HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER.
     ON ARRIVAL TO THE E/R HE WAS COMATOSE, HIS SYSTOLIC PRESSURE WAS OVER 200 CT SCANS REVEALED LARGE LEFT CAUDATE AND BASAL GASNGLION INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE, LEFT LATERAL VENTRICLE, THIR VENTRICLE AND FOURTH VENTRICLE WITH OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS, HYPERTENSION AND HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS DISEASE.  
     HE UNDERWENT A VENTRICULOSTOMY, BUT REMAINED COMATOSE AND WAS DECLARED BRAIN DEAD.  HE WAS DEEMED A DO NOT RESUSCITATE PATIENT AND DIED ON JULY 26, 1996 AT 9:10 PM.