Pedestrians In Crosswalks Are At Risk Of Being Hit By A Motor vehicle
Are you safe by adhering to the rules and using a crosswalk to cross the street? You you make sure that you cross a street at a marked crosswalk. Imagine if only there were an assurance that drivers would keep to the rules and give pedestrians in a crosswalk the right of way. Lawsuits regarding pedestrians hurt in a motor vehicle accident while in a crosswalk are among those taken on by any attorney who handles motor vehicle accident lawsuits. When a motor vehicle accident deals with a pedestrian the injuries are regularly major and have extreme long-term effects. Look at the following cases.
Case 1: This documented lawsuit involved the driver of a bus which hit a pedestrian. The pedestrian was in a crosswalk at the time of the accident. The driver failed to halt after striking the victim. Because the bus kept going it ran over the pedestrian. The pedestrian was a woman, fifty years old, a grandmother, who was on her way to buy presents for her grandchildren from a local store. The impact and the weight of the bus running her over resulted in her sustaining fractures to her rib, fractures to her pelvis, and a fracture to her spine. The victim will require hip replacement surgery as a result of her injuries. The law firm that handled this matter reported that they obtained a settlement of $1,250,000 on behalf of the victim.
Case 2: A driver was speeding in a heavily trafficked region of a large metropolitan city. There were a large number of pedestrians in the area. The driver was operating a rental car. He ran a red light and hit a van. This forced the van into a crosswalk which was being crossed by a pedestrian. The pedestrian, a twenty five year old man, sustained a spinal cord fracture injury that left him with total paralysis from the chest down.
The law firm that represented the pedestrian started a lawsuit against both the driver and the company that rented the car to the driver. The lawsuit went to trial with a judge upholding $20.3 million of the larger jury verdict. This amount was intended to cover medical expenses (for the amount incurred up to the trial and for the amount for the care he will need in the future), the pedestrian