     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON OCTOBER 17, 1996 DECEASED WAS A PASSENGER IN A 1987 BUICK WHICH WAS TRAVELING WESTBOUND ON N.E. 151ST STREET.  AS THE VEHICLE ENTERED THE INTERSECTION OF WEST DIXIE HIGHWAY IT WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON WEST DIXIE HIGHWAY.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
      UPON ARRIVAL, INTUBATED, I.V.'S STARTED AND IN FULL CARDIO RESPIRATORY ARREST.  HE WAS NOTED TO HAVE MULTIPLE DEFORMITIES.  HE WAS TAKEN TO SURGERY FOR AN ELAP.  PRE-OP DIAGNOSIS WERE HEMOPERITONEUM, SHATTERED SPLEEN.  HE UNDERWENT A SPLENECTOMY.  HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND EXPIRED AT 2:44P.M..
     *** DECEASED WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT.***