     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: OCTOBER 15, 1996 AT 9:45 A.M. THE DECEASED WAS AN UNRESTRAINED    ***DRIVER***   OF A 1986 FORD TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON U.S. 1 IN THE LEFT LANE. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS THE DEC'D LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE LEFT THE ROADWAY AND STRUCK A UTILITY POLE ON THE SHOULDER OF THE ROADWAY. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOMESTEAD HOSPITAL  WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES. HIS CONDITION WAS STABILIZED AND HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
     UPON HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, HE WAS ADMITTED C/O CHEST PAIN, NO VISIBLE CHEST TRAUMA, MULTIPLE FACIAL LACERATIONS. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH C-SPINE FRACTURE AND RENDERED QUADRAPLEGIC. C-SPINE LATERAL SHOWED COMPRESSION FRACTURE OF C-5 AND C-6. ALSO NOTED WITH A LEFT INFEROLAT HEMIBLOCK, RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK AND EVIDENCE OF OLD INFERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. HE WAS TREATED WITH SUPPORTIVE CARE, HOWEVER HIS CONDITION SLOWLY DETERIORATED AND ON DECEMBER 20, 1996 HE WAS PRONOUNCED.