Claude Got in 1990. PIERRE VERDY / AFP
Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and “deeply affected by the death of his wife”, Claude Got resorted to assisted suicide in Belgium.
“Father of accidentology” And “Mister road safety in France“, the doctor Claude Got died Friday August 11 in Belgium at the age of 87, announced to AFP the League against road violence, confirming information from the daily The world.
Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease anddeeply affected by the death of his wife», Claude Got, “went to Belgium for a assisted suicideaccording to his wishes”, told AFP Jean-Yves Lamant, president of the League against road violence, informed of the death by the family of the deceased. His disappearance was also confirmed to AFP by the French Observatory of Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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“Expert among experts in accidentology», “permanently consulted» And “demanded by most governments» sur road safety issues, Claude Got hasworked hand in hand with the League Against Road Violencefor more than 20 years, added Jean-Yves Lamant.
It was “the Mr road safety in France for 60 years» And “all his conclusions were authoritativesums up the president of the association. This pathologist was a member of the expert committee of the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) but also president of the scientific college of the French Observatory of Drugs and Drug Addiction and honorary professor of the René-Descartes University of Medicine (now Paris-Cite University).
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Claude Got began his career as an intern in the hospitals of Paris, then head of clinic before moving towards pneumology, intensive care and finally pathological anatomy. In this capacity, he carried out autopsies of accident victims to develop biomechanical knowledge of the lesions produced by accidents.
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