     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON SEPT. 9, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS A PASSENGER ON A TRICYCLE TRAVELING WEST ON NW 36TH STREET WHEN THE TRICYCLE WAS REAR-ENDED BY A 1985 ISUZU WHICH WAS ALSO GOING WEST ON NW 36TH STREET.  THE DECEASED WAS EJECTED FROM THE TRICYCLE AND CAUGHT BENEATH THE ISUZU AND DRAGGED OVER A MILE.  
     THE DECEASED WAS  TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HE WAS ASSESSED WITH A LARGE SCALP LACERATION WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, SUBDURAL HEMATOMA, SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, RIB FRACTURES, LEFT PELVIC DISLOCATION AND LEFT OPEN KNEE JOINT.  HE WAS INTUBATED AND PARARLYZED.  HIS SERUM ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS 208 MG/DL.  HE UNDERWENT NUMEROUS DEBRIDEMENT AND IRRIGATION PROCEDURES FOR HIS WOUNDS AND SURGERY TO CLOSE THE SCALP LACERATION.  HIS SCALP WOUND BECAME INFECTED AND FURTHER PROCEDURES HAD TO BE PERFORMED.  HIS CONDITION GRADUALLY DETERIORATED AND ON OCT. 11, 1996 DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE HE HAD AN ACUTE BRADYCARDIC, HYPOTENSIVE ARREST.  CPR WAS INITIATED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 3:15 PM.   
     HE HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF ANGINA AND HYPERTENSION.