{"id":446,"date":"2010-06-08T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:15:47","slug":"mother-and-son-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/mother-and-son-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"$250,000: Negligent Driver Strikes Mother and Two Year Old Son Crossing Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CASE DESCRIPTION:<\/strong> At the time of this incident, plaintiff Amy K was walking her two year old son Dane home after dropping off her older son at school.&nbsp; As she was crossing the street at the intersection of Valeroso and Via Hacienda, defendant made a left hand turn and struck Amy K when she was a little more than 1\/2 way across the street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULT:<\/strong> $250,000 policy limits on behalf of Amy K; $8,750 on behalf of Dane K<\/p>\n<p>Defendant stated that sunlight had blocked her vision, and that she did not realize she had struck someone until she heard Amy K\u2019s scream and felt the collision.&nbsp; The independent witnesses on the scene stated that Defendant was traveling &#8220;very fast,&#8221; and that the force of the collision threw plaintiff Amy K into the air before she landed heavily on her back in the street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE OF CASE:<\/strong> Automobile Accident, Personal Injury<\/p>\n<p><strong>INJURIES:<\/strong> Amy K was diagnosed w\/ a mild brain bruise and a chip fx at C 6.&nbsp; She also had an air pocket in the lung. Dane K suffered scrapes and bruises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE &amp; LOCATION OF INCIDENT:<\/strong> October 24, 2006 at approximately 8:00 a.m., Antonio Parkway and Valeroso, Rancho Santa Margarita, California<\/p>\n<p><strong>OCCUPATION:<\/strong> Housewife, a minor son<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEYS:<\/strong><br \/>\nDarren O. Aitken, Esq.<br \/>\nAITKEN, AITKEN &amp; COHN<br \/>\nFor Plaintiffs B&nbsp; Amy and Dane K<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANTS ATTORNEYS:<\/strong><br \/>\nPeter J. Gates, Esq.<br \/>\nGATES, ODORTY, GONTER &amp; GUY LLP<br \/>\nFor Defendant B Brian L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASE DESCRIPTION: At the time of this incident, plaintiff Amy K was walking her two year old son Dane home after dropping off her older son at school.&nbsp; As she was crossing the street at the intersection of Valeroso and Via Hacienda, defendant made a left hand turn and struck Amy K when she was&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/mother-and-son-hit\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[826],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-vehicular-accidents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}