     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON AUG. 17, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS A PEDESTRIAN INVOLVED IN A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION IN WHICH A VEHICLE BACKED INTO HER KNOCKING HER TO THE GROUND.  SHE STRUCK HER HEAD AND SUSTAINED A LARGE HEMATOMA.  SHE WAS TREATED AT MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL AND DISCHARGED ON AUG. 19, 1996 WITH THE DIAGNOSIS OF CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA SECONDARY TO MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT WITH LARGE, RIGHT OCCIPITAL HEMATOMA; POSSIBLE, BUT APPARENTLY NO COMPATIBLE WITH SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; POST CONCUSSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE; HISTORY OF IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND STATUS POST PACEMAKER FOR SICK SINUS SYNDROME.
     SHE WAS FOUND DEAD AT HOME ON SEPT. 30, 1996 BY FIRE RESCUE ABOUT 2:15 AM.  SHE HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF HEART DISEASE WAS ALSO TREATED AT MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER IN THE PAST.  