David Halberstam died immediately · 2007-04-25 15:08
Historian and journalist David Halberstam died instantly from a punctured heart suffered in Monday's car crash.
An autopsy revealed that the 73-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author fractured a rib that pierced his heart, according to San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault.
"He had a fractured pelvis and several fractured ribs, one of which went into his heart," Foucrault said Tuesday. _"In this type of rupture of the heart, death comes immediately."
Police have yet to file charges in the late-morning crash that killed the New York City-based writer, who was a passenger in a car being driven by a first-year journalism student,
Los Angeles Times informs.
Halberstam was visiting the Bay Area to deliver a lecture at UC Berkeley and conduct an interview for an upcoming book.
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