{"id":5346,"date":"2010-06-08T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:16:32","slug":"young-driver-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/young-driver-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"$250,000: Driver Struck By Left Turning Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

CASE DESCRIPTION:<\/strong> Young driver hit by older man making a left hand turn while running a red light.  Since the male driver was found primarily at fault, suit was filed against his insurance and an under insured motorist claim was filed with her insurance.<\/p>\n

RESULT:  $250,000.00 total settlement <\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 29, 2003, Plaintiff a 20-year-old freshman at the University of Southern California was driving eastbound on Garfield Avenue in the City of Huntington Beach in her 1999 Mercury Mountaineer.  As Plaintiff proceeded eastbound on Garfield Avenue into the intersection with Main Street she was struck by an 86-year\u2013old gentleman driving a 1997 Cadillac Fleetwood, who ran a red light and made a left hand turn from the westbound number one lane of travel on Garfield Avenue, across a painted median and the designated left-turn lane on westbound Garfield Avenue towards southbound Main Street.<\/p>\n

The Defendant Jared M. was identified in the Traffic collision Report as being the primary cause of the incident for being in violation of C.V.C. \u00a721801(a), for failing to yield to oncoming traffic before making a left hand turn.<\/p>\n

TYPE OF CASE:<\/strong> Auto v. Auto<\/p>\n

INJURIES:<\/strong> Plaintiff sustained a calcaneal fracture for which she underwent an open reduction internal fixation of the right calcaneus fracture involving placement of a plate and pins as well as transverse fracture through her right patella for which she underwent an open reduction internal fixation involving the placement of wire mesh.<\/p>\n

DATE & LOCATION OF INCIDENT:<\/strong> On 9\/29\/03 on Garfield Avenue at the intersection of Main Street in the City of Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE:<\/strong> 20 at time of the incident.<\/p>\n

OCCUPATION:  Student <\/strong><\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S ATTORNEYS:<\/strong>
\nRichard A. Cohn & Casey R. Johnson
\nAITKEN * AITKEN * COHN
\nFor Plaintiff \u2013 Lindsey S.<\/em><\/p>\n

DEFENDANTS\u2019 ATTORNEYS:<\/strong> None designated.<\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S INSURANCE CO.:<\/strong> Farmers<\/p>\n

DEFENDANT\u2019S INSURANCE CO.:<\/strong> State Farm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CASE DESCRIPTION: Young driver hit by older man making a left hand turn while running a red light.  Since the male driver was found primarily at fault, suit was filed against his insurance and an under insured motorist claim was filed with her insurance. RESULT:  $250,000.00 total settlement On September 29, 2003, Plaintiff a 20-year-old… 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-5346","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\/5346","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=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}