    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON AUGUST 30, 1996, ABT. 1:03P.M., THE DECEASED WAS THE RIGHT FRONT PASSENGER IN A 1983 VOLVO THAT WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON N.W. 32ND AVENUE.  THE VOLVO WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN TO GO WESTBOUND ON N.W. 119TH STREET WHEN A 1975 CHEVORLET THAT WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON N.W. 32ND AVENUE WENT THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AND STRUCK THE VOLVO ON THE PASSENGER'S SIDE.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AND UPON ARRIVAL, ADMINISTERED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT AND TRANSPORTED HER TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.

    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE WITH A GCS OF 15.  SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE O.R. WITH PRE-OP DIAGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE ORTHOPEDIC INJURIES, HEMOPERITONEUM.  POST-OP DIAGNOSIS, MAJOR HEPATIC LACERATION GRADE III.  AN EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY, HEPATORRHOPHY AND PLACEMENT OF LEFT CHEST TUBE WAS PERFORMED.  FINDINGS:  GRADE III - IV LACERATION OF THE LIVER.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 3:10P.M., SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.

***SHE WAS AN UNRESTRAINED PASSENGER***