     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON SEPT. 12, 1996 ABOUT 5:55 PM THE DECEASED WAS THE UNRESTRAINED DRIVER OF A VEHICLE TRAVELING EAST ON SW 56TH STREET AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.  HE CHANGED LANES FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE AND LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE.  THE VEHICLE LEFT THE ROADWAY ON THE SOUTH SHOULDER AT 8250 SW 56TH STREET, ROLLED OVER SEVERAL TIMES AND STRUCK A TREE.  
     HE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R WITH PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTED AIRWAY AND NOT BREATHING.  HE WAS ASSESSED WITH BILATERAL HEAD ABRASIONS, MULTIPLE BILATERAL UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES FRACTURES, BILATERAL BLOODY DRAINAGE FROM EARS AND NOSE AND CONTUSIONS ON BILATERAL THORAX, BILATERAL ABDOMEN AND BILATERAL PELVIS.  HIS PUPILS WERE BLOWN AND CARDIAC MONITOR SHOWED ASYSTOLE.  DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 7:07 PM.