     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CHART, PATIENT # (705-17-47), ON SEPTEMBER 16,1996 AT 2:33 PM., THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS A REAR SEAT PASSENGER IN A VEHICLE INVOLVED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.   FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 3:06 PM., HYPOPTENSIVE, WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES AND TRAUMA WHICH INCLUDED:  CLOSED HEAD INJURY, SUBDURAL HEMATOMA, CEREBRAL CONTUSIONS, LEFT FEMORAL FRACTURE, LEFT TIBIA FRACTURE.  SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE OPERATING ROOM WHERE SHE UNDERWENT A RIGHT TEMPORAL CRANIOTOMY WITH DEBRIDEMENT OF BRAIN.  POST OPERATIVELY SHE REMAINED COMATOSE WITH A GCS = 3, ON VENTILATORY SUPPORT.  SHE DID NOT RECOVER BUT INSTEAD HER CONDITION AGGRAVATED AND ON SEPTEMBER 27,1996 SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 12:19 PM.
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     ACCORDING TO GRAND DAUGHTER,  THE DECEASED WAS A REAR SEAT PASSENGER IN A 1986 MAZDA THAT WAS BEING DRIVEN BY HER DAUGHTER. THE DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND WAS THE FRONT PASSENGER. REPORTEDLY THEY WERE INVOLVED IN A COLLISION WITH A "U - HAUL" TRUCK THAT WAS BEING DRIVEN BY A PERSON WHO HAD NO LICENSE, THE NEPHEW OF THE PERSON WHO RENTED THE TRUCK.  SHE STATED THAT THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS AT FAULT.