Mr. Zamarripa, a 17-year-old youth, sustained severe brain damage, including spastic paralysis and a speech impediment when the motorcycle he was riding as a passenger crashed into a van at an intersection. Zamarripa claimed that a five foot high wall on the Union Oil company’s property caused his stepfather, who was driving the motorcycle, to be unable to see on-coming cars at the intersection. Zamarripa sued the city of Coachella for negligently placing the wall.
Brain Injury - TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
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At 12:44 p.m. on August 4, 2005, plaintiff Mercy Zamora, a San Francisco meter maid in her 40s, was driving a three-wheeled vehicle on Harrison Street, toward First Street, when her brakes failed while driving downhill. She was traveling at 22 mph and hit a van that was stopped at the red light on First Street. The force of the impact caused the bottom of the front of the vehicle to be crushed upward while the roof collapsed downward. The steering wheel became lodged into Zamora’s lower abdomen and she was trapped in the vehicle. Emergency workers used the Jaws of Life to free Zamora.
Trenton-NJ
Accident Date:
Wed, 09/24/2014McQueen was driving her SUV on the ramp from Route 22 to Interstate-78 when she lost control and rolled off the road; her car came to rest on it's roof. After being extricated from the vehicle, McQueen was airlifted to St. Luke's Hospital, where she died a week later from a brain injury.
Philadelphia, PA
Accident Date:
Fri, 11/01/2013Aubrey Baumbach was walking along a road after rowing practice with the other members of Lafayette College's rowing team when she was struck by a jeep driven by Wilson Kneebone, a man with a history of driving drunk.