{"id":2300,"date":"2013-11-21T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2013-11-21T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:25:52","slug":"jury-sides-driver-car-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-sides-driver-car-motorcycle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Sides With Driver of Car in Motorcycle Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Sept. 24, 2010, Thomas DeSonia was driving his motorcycle with his girlfriend as his passenger.<span>\u00a0<\/span>DeSonia was traveling about 40 mph northbound on Route 53 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmington-il.com\/\">Wilmington, Ill.,<\/a> when the southbound car driven by defendant Bernard Wall attempted a left turn in front of DeSonia.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The motorcycle and the car collided.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Wall was turning into a driveway so he could turn around and head back north.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Because he had forgotten to purchase something while shopping at the store, he wanted to return there and thus the reason for the left turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wall reportedly apologized to DeSonia at the scene.DeSonia alleged that the impact caused him to fall onto his back and slide about 35 feet on the pavement causing road rash, a laceration to his right hand that required 4 stitches to close and chronic back pain from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/patientinstructions\/000610.htm\">sacroiliac joint <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spine-health.com\/conditions\/spine-anatomy\/spinal-cord-and-spinal-nerve-roots\">L5-S1 nerves<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>DeSonia was treated with 3 epidural steroid injections, physical therapy, medicine and ongoing treatment.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The issue of DeSonia\u2019s permanent medical condition was barred due to the non-disclosure of his medical bills.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Only a portion of his total medical bills were admitted and considered by the jury.<span>\u00a0<\/span>DeSonia lost six months of work as a truck driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wall said he did not see the motorcycle until the last moment because it was following too closely behind another car.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-sides-driver-car-motorcycle-crash\/#more-2300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 24, 2010, Thomas DeSonia was driving his motorcycle with his girlfriend as his passenger.\u00a0DeSonia was traveling about 40 mph northbound on Route 53 in Wilmington, Ill., when the southbound car driven by defendant Bernard Wall attempted a left turn in front of DeSonia.\u00a0The motorcycle and the car collided.\u00a0Wall was turning into a driveway [&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":[45,47,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-motorcycle-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>Jury Sides With Driver of Car in Motorcycle Crash  &#8212; 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