     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: OCTOBER 16, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS THE  ***DRIVER***  OF A VEHICLE TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON SOUTHWEST 69TH AVENUE . FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, THE VEHICLE ENTERED THE EASTBOUND LANES OF BIRD ROAD INTO THE PATH OF AN EASTBOUND VEHICLE. THE EASTBOUND VEHICLE STRUCK THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DEC'D VEHICLE. THE DEC'D VEHICLE THEN TRAVELED IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION BEFORE COMING TO IT'S FINAL REST.
     FIRE-RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HER TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. UPON HER ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 4:57 P.M. SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE, INTUBATED BY FIRE-RESCUE. SHE WAS OBSERVED WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES. WAS EMERGENTLY TAKEN TO THE O.R. WHERE SHE UNDERWENT AN EXPLORATORY LAPOROTOMY. WAS NOTED WITH MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES, CLAVICAL FRACTURE, LIVER LACERATION, HIP FRACTURE AND SPLENIC LACERATION. HER CONDITION WORSENED AND AT 7:15 P.M. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED.

     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY: DECEASED WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. MILLER FOR HYPERTENSION AND EPISODES OF ALCOHOLISM.