{"id":1637,"date":"2013-06-26T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2013-06-22T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T17:22:38","slug":"cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-in-crosswalk-pedestrian-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-in-crosswalk-pedestrian-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Jury Verdict for Driver in Crosswalk Pedestrian Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On April 30, 2009, Bretton Vaughn was driving southbound on Halsted Street in Harvey, Ill.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Vaughn\u2019s vehicle struck the plaintiff pedestrian, Sherry Wilson, in the crosswalk at 149<sup>th<\/sup> Street.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The intersection at that location is a 3-way intersection.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Wilson had walked westbound across two northbound lanes and two southbound lanes before reaching an island between the diverging or splitting southbound lanes.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Halsted at that place splits into Halsted and Morgan, south of 149<sup>th<\/sup> Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When Wilson stepped off the island and crossed, she was in front of a stopped bus before entering the far right lane.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was there that she was hit by the defendant\u2019s vehicle.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wilson, 49, was walking to work.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She suffered a severely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthopaedicsone.com\/display\/MSKMed\/Tibial+plateau+fractures\">comminuted tibial plateau fracture <\/a>in her right knee requiring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal_fixation\">open reduction internal fixation surgery<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She also had a small bleed to her head internally.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She claimed her light was green when she started crossing the street and when she stepped off the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-in-crosswalk-pedestrian-collision\/#more-1637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 30, 2009, Bretton Vaughn was driving southbound on Halsted Street in Harvey, Ill.\u00a0Vaughn\u2019s vehicle struck the plaintiff pedestrian, Sherry Wilson, in the crosswalk at 149th Street.\u00a0The intersection at that location is a 3-way intersection.\u00a0Wilson had walked westbound across two northbound lanes and two southbound lanes before reaching an island between the diverging or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-pedestrian-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cook County Jury Verdict for Driver in Crosswalk Pedestrian Collision &#8212; 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