     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: AUGUST 15, 1996 AT APPROX 7:50 A.M. THE DECEASED WAS A RESTRAINED  ***DRIVER***  OF A VEHICLE TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND IN THE INSIDE LANE ON THE PALMETTO EXPRESSWAY.   HE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO VEER TO THE LEFT STRIKING A ATTENUATOR AND THE TEMPORARY CONCRETE BARRIER WALL LOCATED ON THE EAST SHOULDER. UPON IMPACT THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO ROTATE COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AS IT OVERTURNED ONTO IT'S RIGHT SIDE, IT'S TOP AND THEN BACK ONTO IT'S RIGHT SIDE. THE VEHICLE CAME TO IT'S FINAL REST ON IT'S RIGHT SIDE FACING A SOUTHWESTERLY DIRECTION.  
     FIRE-RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND RESPONED.  UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, DEC'D WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED WITH SEVERE CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA. INITIAL GCS WAS 15 WHICH SUDDENLY DETERIORATED TO 6. HE WAS HYPERTENSIVE AND WITH FIXED AND DILATED PUPILS. ADMISSION CT SCAN REVEALED LARGE RIGHT SUBDURAL HEMATOMA. HE WAS TAKEN EMERGENTLY TO THE O.R. WHERE HE UNDERWENT A RIGHT CRANIOTOMY WITH DRAINAGE OF LARGE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA AND PLACEMENT OF RIGHT FRONTAL VENTRICULOSTOMY.  POST-OPERATIVELY, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND ON AUGUST 18, 1996 HE WAS PRONOUNCED.


                               ***   AMENDED ON SEPTEMBER 5,1996  --  IP   ***