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 *Radiology is not good at dating fratures,<ref name=pmid15788611>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Prosser | first1 = I. | last2 = Maguire | first2 = S. | last3 = Harrison | first3 = SK. | last4 = Mann | first4 = M. | last5 = Sibert | first5 = JR. | last6 = Kemp | first6 = AM. | title = How old is this fracture? Radiologic dating of fractures in children: a systematic review. | journal = AJR Am J Roentgenol | volume = 184 | issue = 4 | pages = 1282-6 | month = Apr | year = 2005 | doi =  | PMID = 15788611 | url=http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/184/4/1282 }}
 </ref> but good at finding 'em.
+===Motor vehicle vs. pedestrian===
+If the pedestrian is standing during the initial impact one classically finds, at bumper level, a lower limb fracture with a ''Messerer wedge'' (German: ''Messerer-Kiel'');<ref name=pmid11376986></ref> the wedge points in the direction of (impact) force.
 ==Autopsy==