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October 18, 2006
Permanent Soft-Tissue Injury to Bystander
OCTOBER 2006 - A settlement of $425,000 was secured on behalf of a single mother of three who sustained a permanent soft-tissue injury as a bystander to an automotive collision. The mother was jogging along the sidewalk of US Highway 41 in Lutz, Florida, when a car leaving an intersecting street failed to yield the right of way to southbound traffic. The car collided with the passenger side of a large pickup truck. The force of the collision caused the truck to careen onto the sidewalk where the mother exercised. She was thereafter catapulted some twenty feet in the air. If not for a utility pole and metal railing, both of which were completely sheered at impact, the young mother surely would have experienced death as opposed to just injury. The settlement resulted after litigation and the offending driver's defense of blaming environmental factors and the driver of the pickup truck.
Posted by alvarezgarcia at October 18, 2006 08:10 PM
