Articles Posted in Pedestrian Accidents

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Jennifer Wells, age 27, was a pedestrian crossing at Pulaski Avenue and 52nd Street in Chicago. She was heading westbound at the northern-most stoplight standard of the intersection. She believed it was the location of the crosswalk.  It was rush hour at the time of the incident, and traffic was stopped at a red light for both northbound and southbound Pulaski.

In walking across the intersection, Wells had reached the far curb lane when she was grazed by the defendant Dorota Belzowska’s southbound car causing fractures to both of her feet and ankle. She also suffered other soft tissue injuries. She was forced to take two months off work as an accountant. 

Wells’s doctor testified at the trial that her injuries took place both when she was struck by the car and when she twisted away in an attempt to avoid being hit by the defendant’s car. 

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Pedestrian Eusebio Camacho was struck and injured when crossing midblock at night by defendant Michael Lynch’s eastbound car. Camacho received a $56,803 verdict although a 50 percent comparative fault reduction was entered by the jury. 

The accident occurred on Oct. 12, 2010 when Camacho was walking northbound across Irving Park Road in Chicago in the middle of the block at night. He was hit by Lynch’s car. The car had crossed over the double yellow median lines as Lynch was trying to gain access to the left-turn lane. 

Camacho, 44, suffered a fractured tibia and torn rotator cuff.  He lost four months of work as Walgreen’s store manager. 

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On April 30, 2009, Bretton Vaughn was driving southbound on Halsted Street in Harvey, Ill. Vaughn’s vehicle struck the plaintiff pedestrian, Sherry Wilson, in the crosswalk at 149th Street. The intersection at that location is a 3-way intersection. Wilson had walked westbound across two northbound lanes and two southbound lanes before reaching an island between the diverging or splitting southbound lanes. Halsted at that place splits into Halsted and Morgan, south of 149th Street.

When Wilson stepped off the island and crossed, she was in front of a stopped bus before entering the far right lane.  It was there that she was hit by the defendant’s vehicle. 

Wilson, 49, was walking to work. She suffered a severely comminuted tibial plateau fracture in her right knee requiring open reduction internal fixation surgery. She also had a small bleed to her head internally. She claimed her light was green when she started crossing the street and when she stepped off the island.

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