[Problems concerning pedestrians run over while in prone position].

By the analysis of 54 traffic accidents involving prone, run-over people it is shown that the vast majority were drunken males who lay on the road during the night and were there driven over. There are many reasons for the "lying on the road" including, falling due to sickness, voluntary lying for suicide, falling of lying due to an alcoholic condition. For evidence respectively exclusion a previous accident, the clothing must be precisely examined for trace evidence (textile changes, transfer of paint, glass fragments, tyretread patterns, skidmarks from shoes). An analysis of skin, bones and internal organs indicates the cause of the injuries (driving into, throwing on to, throwing off and rolling over).