While the manner of Bob Saget’s death alone stunned fans, the severity of his injuries is nothing short of shocking. According to U.S. News & World Report, he was found to have multiple skull fractures, but the report said that there was no evidence of injuries in other parts of the body — something that would normally be seen in someone who had suffered a fall.
The question turned to how Saget could’ve sustained such severe injuries. Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian, a concussion expert and emergency physician, told The New York Times that if someone hits their head in just the right manner, such injuries are possible. “It’s like an egg cracking,” he said. “You hit it in one spot, and it can crack from the back to the front.” Dr. Bazarian also noted that he doubted that Saget “was lucid and doubt he thought, ‘I’m just going to sleep this off.'”
Still, the severity of Saget’s injuries to the back, right, and front of his skull is so high that another doctor — Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist — told The New York Times that such injuries are “something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”
