     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS A HOMELESS PERSON WHO FREQUENTED THE AREA OF COLLINS AVENUE ON MIAMI BEACH.
     DECEMBER 12, 1996 HE WAS A  ***PEDESTRIAN***  CROSSING COLLINS AVENUE FROM WEST TO EAST IN THE 7000 BLOCK. HE WAS STRUCK BY A 1984 NISSAN, BROWN IN COLOR AS THE VEHICLE WAS NORTHBOUND ON COLLINS AVENUE. 
     FIRE-RESCUE RESPONDED AND FOUND DECEASED UNDER THE VEHICLE WITH HIS NECK SEVERELY ANGULATED AND ROTATED. HE WAS NOTED WITH OPEN FRACTURES OF THE RIGHT KNEE AND ANKLE. HE WAS INTUBATED AND MAST SUIT APPLIED, LEGS INFLATED. HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - RYDER TRAUMA CENTER.
     UPON HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 7:54 P.M. HE WAS RE-INTUBATED AFTER THE TUBE WAS NOTED IN THE WRONG POSITION. C.P.R. WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE WITH PUPILS FIXED AND DILATED. MONITOR SHOWING AGONAL RHYTHM. ALL EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE WERE MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS, HE WAS PRONOUNCED AT 7:57 P.M..