{"id":3104,"date":"2014-02-18T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:41:22","slug":"474000-illinois-jury-verdict-flagman-struck-car-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/474000-illinois-jury-verdict-flagman-struck-car-construction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"$474,000 Illinois Jury Verdict for Flagman Struck by Car at Construction Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Leroy Walker Jr. was working as a flagman for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currancontracting.com\/\">Curran Contracting<\/a> on May 1, 2008. He was directing traffic on Route 173 near Lorelei Drive in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofzion.com\/\">Zion, Ill<\/a>.<span>\u00a0\u00a0Walker\u00a0<\/span>was standing in front of a construction site where a new Super Wal-Mart store was being built.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The defendant, Steven Kruglar, was driving westbound on Route 173 when Walker stopped traffic to allow construction vehicles to enter and exit the driveway to the construction site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Walker alleged in his lawsuit that Kruglar accelerated without being given permission to proceed and attempted to go around a semi-truck turning into the entrance.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>At that time, Kruglar\u2019s vehicle struck Walker\u2019s right wrist and arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/474000-illinois-jury-verdict-flagman-struck-car-construction-site\/#more-3104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leroy Walker Jr. was working as a flagman for Curran Contracting on May 1, 2008. He was directing traffic on Route 173 near Lorelei Drive in Zion, Ill.\u00a0\u00a0Walker\u00a0was standing in front of a construction site where a new Super Wal-Mart store was being built. The defendant, Steven Kruglar, was driving westbound on Route 173 when [&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":[45,6,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-construction-injuries","category-truck-accidents","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$474,000 Illinois Jury Verdict for Flagman Struck by Car at Construction Site &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leroy Walker Jr. was working as a flagman for Curran Contracting on May 1, 2008. 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