{"id":3751,"date":"2014-06-11T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2014-06-11T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:48:03","slug":"bicyclist-injured-intersection-gains-jury-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/bicyclist-injured-intersection-gains-jury-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist Injured at Intersection Gains Jury Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 26, 2011, 23-year-old Jerry Oswalt was riding his bike from one dog walking customer\u2019s home to another, riding southbound on Sacramento Avenue near its intersection with Logan Boulevard. Oswalt claimed that he entered the intersection on a green light but was hit at the bike\u2019s rear tire by the defendant\u2019s eastbound car, which ran a red light. The defendant, Esther Fragoso, was claimed to have caused Oswalt to fall and strike his head on the road knocking him unconscious. When he regained consciousness, his head was bleeding and he staggered out of the intersection to a nearby grass median with his bike and laid down.<\/p>\n<p>Oswalt, in addition to the concussion he suffered, sustained a six-inch cut to the right temple area above his eye, facial scarring, a tiny cortical fracture, right orbital hematoma, right knee pain and contusions.<\/p>\n<p>Fragoso, 77 and retired, argued that she had a green light and that Oswalt went through a red light. She also said that her vehicle never made contact with Oswalt\u2019s bicycle and that she saw him lose control of his bike on the wet, snowy pavement and fall to the ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/bicyclist-injured-intersection-gains-jury-verdict\/#more-3751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 26, 2011, 23-year-old Jerry Oswalt was riding his bike from one dog walking customer\u2019s home to another, riding southbound on Sacramento Avenue near its intersection with Logan Boulevard. Oswalt claimed that he entered the intersection on a green light but was hit at the bike\u2019s rear tire by the defendant\u2019s eastbound car, which [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,5,87,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-intersection-crash","category-jury-instructions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bicyclist Injured at Intersection Gains Jury Verdict  &#8212; 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