Journal Published Online: 01 May 2001
Volume 46, Issue 3

Seat Belt Induced Transection of the Trachea in a Child on the Lap of an Adult

CODEN: JFSCAS

Abstract

As a victim of his parents' suicide, a three-year-old boy was found dead on the lap of the passenger in the left front seat of a car that dove from the wharf and crashed into the sea. He died from the transection of trachea due to shoulder belt in the absence of the signs of drowning. The seat belt paradoxically injured the child on the passenger's lap in the traffic accident. The popular custom of Japanese parents of holding their children on their laps in cars is dangerous, while another custom of killing their children upon suicide of parents or couples should be socially and legally controlled.

Author Information

Uemura, K
Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshida, K
Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Pages: 3
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Stock #: JFS15028J
ISSN: 0022-1198
DOI: 10.1520/JFS15028J