     ACCORDING TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE FAMILY: ON MAR. 4, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS A PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY A CAR IN BIG PINE KEY, FL.  HE WAS INITIALLY TRANSPORTED TO FISHERMAN'S HOSPITAL IN MARATHON FLORIDA.  HIS ETHANOL LEVEL WAS 345 MG/DL, BUT ALL DRUGS SCREENS WERE NEGATIVE.  X-RAYS REVEALED LINEAR SKULL FRACTURE, TEMPORAL LEFT PARIETAL.  CT BRAIN SCAN REVEALED MULTIPLE CONTUSIONS/CEREBRAL EDEMA.  HE WAS TRANSFERED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON MAR. 5, 1996, ARRIVING ABOUT 2:27 AM FOR FURTHER ASSESSMENT AND CARE.  
  HE WAS FURTHER ASSESSED WITH LACERATIONS TO THE HEAD, ABRASIONS TO THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, THE RIGHT THORAX AND RIGHT HIP.
     HE UNDERWENT TRACHEOSTOMY IN APR. 96 AND PEG PLACEMENT IN MAY 96 AND A PERCUTANEOUS GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY PLACEMENT IN SEPT. 96.  CHEST X-RAYS IN SEPT. REVEALED LEFT PLEURAL EFFUSION, PULMONARY EDEMA AND EARLY RIGHT LOWER LOBE PNEUMONIA.  HIS CONDITION GRADUALLY DETERIORATED AND ON OCT. 12, 1996 HE SUCCUMBED TO HIS INJURIES AND DIED AT 9:25 PM.