{"id":1990,"date":"2013-08-14T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2013-08-09T22:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T03:35:43","slug":"cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-of-motor-vehicle-that-collided-with-bicyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-of-motor-vehicle-that-collided-with-bicyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Jury Verdict for Driver of Motor Vehicle that Collided with Bicyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This case was brought before a jury panel twice.<span>\u00a0<\/span>These were the facts:<span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>On Sept. 6, 2006, Michael Lynn was bicycling on the sidewalk facing eastbound on the southwest corner of 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago when he was struck by the defendant\u2019s car driven by James Miller.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Miller had been driving southbound on Wentworth with a green light when he swerved to avoid another bicyclist who ran a red light on westbound 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Street.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This caused Miller to lose control, jump the curb and hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lynn, 21, who was entirely without fault, sustained a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closed_head_injury\">closed head injury<\/a>, loss of consciousness, traumatic brain injury, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9728156\">four-part comminuted fracture <\/a>of the left shoulder which was unoperated and bruises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lynn was taken by ambulance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchil.org\/index.html\">Stroger Hospital <\/a>in Chicago, where he suffered respiratory arrest, was intubated and was sedated in a four-day induced coma.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-for-driver-of-motor-vehicle-that-collided-with-bicyclist\/#more-1990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case was brought before a jury panel twice.\u00a0These were the facts:\u00a0\u00a0On Sept. 6, 2006, Michael Lynn was bicycling on the sidewalk facing eastbound on the southwest corner of 33rd Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago when he was struck by the defendant\u2019s car driven by James Miller.\u00a0Miller had been driving southbound on Wentworth with [&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":[45,44,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-bicycle-accidents","category-personal-injury"],"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 of Motor Vehicle that Collided with Bicyclist  &#8212; 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