     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON SEPT. 23, 1996 ABOUT 7:23 PM THE DECEASED WAS THE PASSENGER OF A 95 HONDA MOTORCYCLE TRAVELING NORTH ON BRICKELL AVENUE.  A 1990 NISSAN PULLED FROM A STOP SIGN AND THE MOTORCYCLE STRUCK THE NISSAN.  THE DECEASED AND DRIVER (ME# 96-2506) WERE EJECTED FROM THE MOTORCYCLE.  THE DRIVER DIED ON THE SCENE.
     THE DECEASED WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HE WAS ASSESSED WITH A SPLENIC LACERATION, OPEN BOOK PELVIC FRACTURE, URINARY BLADDER RUPTURE, SCROTAL AVULSION, CEREBRAL EDEMA, SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, COAGULOPATHY AND HYPERKALEMIA.  HE UNDERWENT AN EMERGENCY LAPAROTOMY, SPLENECTOMY AND PELVIC EXTERNAL FIXATION PLACEMENT.   DESPITE ALL MEDICAL EFFORTS THE DECEASED WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON SEPT. 27, 1996 AT 7:56 AM.