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This individual was ejected from a motor vehicle and fatally impacted a fence at a high rate of speed, leaving a patterned injury from the top of the fence post contacting his chest. No further info.

A patterned injury has a distinct pattern that may reproduce the characteristics of the object causing the injury. The pattern may be caused by the impact of a weapon or other object on the body, or by contact of the body with a patterned surface.

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