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U članku je na primjerima iz rada vještaka prikazano više realnih slučajeva nesreća koje uzrokuju teške mehaničke ozljede, često s fatalnim ishodom. Prikazane su okolnosti nesreće u proizvodnom pogonu ljevaonice prilikom čišćenja miješalice, nesreće koja je nastala kao posljedica nekontroliranog izlijevanja taline i eksplozije, nesreće na platformi naftnog tornja i nesreće koja se dogodila prilikom rada poljoprivrednog stroja. Dani su podaci o mehaničkim ozljedama koje su često posljedica različitih nesreća, što je područje rada sudsko-medicinskog vještaka. Potom su analizirani uzroci prikazanih realnih slučajeva nesreća na radu., The article presents on the examples from the expert's work several real cases of accidents that cause serious mechanical injuries, often with a fatal outcome. The circumstances of the accident at the foundry production plant when cleaning the blender are presented; accident resulting from an uncontrolled spill of melt and explosion, an accident on the oil tower platform and an accident that occurred during the operation of an agricultural machine. Data on mechanical injuries that are often the result of various accidents are given, which is the field of work of a court medical expert. An analysis of the causes of real cases of accidents at work has been carried out.

This paper is a retrospective analysis of data on 278 persons with fatal outcomes in traffic accidents in Osje~ko- -baranjska County, Croatia, during a five-year period. The observed sample of casualties was divided according to the time of fatal outcome into three groups: immediately deceased (139 or 50.0%), deceased within the first 48 hours (84 or 30.2%) and deceased after 48 hours (55 or 19.8%). A comparison of data was made for the first two groups of casualties, based on the level of alcohol intoxication, and an analysis of the possible influence of alcohol intoxication on an early outcome of severe trauma, which was defined as immediate fatal outcome and fatal outcome within the first 48 hours following the trauma. Casualties from the group of immediately deceased had a significantly higher average blood alcohol level than casualties from the group of persons deceased within the first 48 hours (shown through arithmetic mean of 0.81 g/kg vs. 0.33 g/kg, p=0.000). A binary logistic regression analysis showed that every increase in blood alcohol level by 1 g/kg also increased the odds of an immediate fatal outcome by 1.92 times (p=0.004). Conclusion: Beside increased risks of traffic accidents, the collected data showed that alcohol intoxication of accident participants also increases their chances of an immediate fatal outcome.

For the layperson no crime is more difficult to comprehend than the killing of a child by his or her own parents. This is a retrospective study of neonaticide and infanticide in Eastern Croatia from 1980 to 2004. Judicial records of infanticide cases stored in Regional and County Courts were analyzed for the circumstances surrounding the offense. Twenty-four babies were discovered in various places during investigating period of time. The victims were almost equally divided between boys (12) and girls (11). The gender of one baby was unknown. The mean weight of babies was 2.7 SD = 0.66 kg. The perpetrators preferred rubbish-heaps (33.4%), burying in soil (16.7%), various premises in or around the house (16.7%) and garbage cans (12.5%) as places for hiding the dead babies. The most dominant cause of death in sixteen cases of live birth was asphyxia (37%) with equal distribution of smothering, stuffing the mouth with rags and strangulation. Other frequent causes of death were placing the child in a plastic bag and abandonment (25%), brain injury (25%) and wounding using a sharp weapon (12.5%). The cause of death for six babies remained unknown due to advanced decomposition. Two babies were stillborn. The age of accused mothers varied from 16 to 33, mean 24 SD=5.2 years. Most of them were unmarried (60%) and had limited formal education. They usually kept the pregnancy a secret (73%) and gave birth (93%) without public welfare assistance. The mother lived in the terror of shame and with the guilt that accompany conception without marriage. Fear seemed to be a pronounced motivating factor for committing infanticide. The data on court proceedings were available in fifteen cases. The mothers were officially indicted in all cases for infanticide under the Croatian Criminal Code. The perpetrator remained unidentified in nine suspicious crimes. The court convicted ten mothers of the crime of infanticide. Often juries were unwilling to punish the mother, citing the mother's lifelong guilt of having killed her child as enough punishment.

Hyoid bone is a part of viscerocranium placed between the tongue root and thyroid cartilage to which it is connected by thyrohyoid membrane. Widely accepted morphological classification does not exist. Sexual dimorphism was analysed in this study and new guidelines for anatomical classification of hyoid bones based on anthropometric parameters were given. Total number of analysed bones was 70. The bones were classified into three groups: symmetrical U-type, symmetrical V-type and asymmetrical type according to the angle between greater horns and the proportion of greater horns length. In the females incidence of asymmetrical type is considerably higher than in the males, while the incidence of symmetrical V-type is lower. The angle value that is on average higher in males may be the parameter indicating that in puberty hyoid bone, still not completely ossified, to some extent follows development of thyroid cartilage because of their close anatomical relation.