FATAL BUNGEE JUMP: A CASE REPORT
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 8
Abstract
As more and more people seek for excitement out of their routine works, extreme sports have become a popular activity. Among which, bungee jumping is obviously one of the famous and thrilling one. Since the promotion of the sport at 1980s, million of people worldwide have taken the plunge in to this extreme sport. Many safety standards and strict guidelines have set up to protect the public from casualties as much as possible. Unfortunately, even with all these advances in this direction, bungee jumping accidents still occurs. Here we report a case of 25 year old man sustained fatal injuries when he fell down from 50 ft height while performing bungee jump.
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Satish K. V, Raghavendra R.
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