Lethal recreational activities involving horses - A Forensic study

Legal Medicine
Roger W Byard

Abstract

A search was undertaken of the Forensic Science South Australia, Australia, autopsy database over a 25-year period from 1995 to 2019 with the aim of understanding more about the role that recreational horse use not involving racing may have in mortality. Eight cases were found with an age range of 8-73 years (mean 47 years) and a male:female ratio of 5:3. The major category was a fall while riding (N = 7) with the remaining case (N = 1) sustaining a lethal kicking. Blunt craniocerebral trauma was responsible for death in 4 cases with injuries following falls including acute subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral contusions and lacerations with associated significant cerebral edema. Skeletal injuries occurred in 2 cases with falls that had caused fractures of cervical vertebrae 2 and 4, with contusion of the underlying spinal cord (N = 1), and fracture of the pelvis with significant retroperitoneal hemorrhage from associated vascular injuries (N = 1). Lethal abdominal and chest injuries occurred in 2 cases, both with lacerated livers and multiple rib fractures. In the final case of an 8-year-old girl who was kicked by a horse there was a lacerated liver with a hematoperitoneum, and fractures of the ribs on the right sid...Continue Reading

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