     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON JULY 1, 1996 DECEASED WAS THE DRIVER OF A 1986 CHEVY CAVALIER THAT WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON N.W. 75TH AVENUE APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION OF WEST FLAGLER STREET.   A 1989 MERCEDES WAS TRAVELING WESTBOUND ON FLAGER STREET IN THE INSIDE LANE.  AS BOTH VEHICLE REACHED THE INTERSECTION,  THE DECEASED VEHICLE WAS STRUCK IN THE LEFT SIDE BY THE MERCEDES AND VEERED OFF TO THE RIGHT SHOULDER.  THE MERCEDES  SPUN AROUND IN A COUNTERCLOCK WISE DIRECTION AND CAME TO REST IN THE INSIDE LANE SOUTHBOUND.    FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.   
    UPON ARRIVAL,  ON BACKBOARD AND CPR IN PROGRESS WITH THUMPER.  HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE AND HAD FIXED AND DILATED PUPILS.  HE WAS NOTED TO HAVE A LARGE LACERATION TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH ABRASIONS,  HE WAS EXTREMELY SWOLLEN THROUGHOUT THE FACE, NECK, UPPER CHEST, ABDOMEN AND ARMS.  CPR CONTINUED  BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 12:03 A.M..
     DECEASED WAS WEARING A SEATBELT. 