Punch leads to Brain Injury & Death
Brain injury does not only occur in violent car crashes. In fact, from cases I have been involved in, I know that brain injury can occur in single blows to the head. Similar to the "Hollywood Myth" of recovery after a fight or being knocked unconcious - think common western bar room brawl, or Captain Kirk punching an an alien intruder in Star Trek - people do not generally associate serious brain injury with a single punch or smack in the head. Those knocked unconcious in movies always return fully recovered in the next scene. That is a myth.
For instance, The Boston Globe recently reported a group of teenagers was harassing a Mattapan man last spring, when one of the boys punched the man in the face, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement, police said yesterday.
About a week later, the man, 41-year-old Michael Hansbury, died of complications of a brain injury. Yesterday, a 15-year-old boy was arrested at William McKinley South End Academy on charges of manslaughter.
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One punch - how well I know!
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Move your head.