{"id":4093,"date":"2014-08-13T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:35:02","slug":"219000-cook-county-jury-verdict-rear-end-truck-collision-construction-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/219000-cook-county-jury-verdict-rear-end-truck-collision-construction-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"$219,000 Cook County Jury Verdict in Rear-End Truck Collision in Construction Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, 2009, Manuel Banuelos was driving a dump truck through a construction zone on northbound <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interstate_94\">Interstate 94<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakecountyil.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Lake County, Ill.<\/a>, when he attempted to turn into a construction site a quarter-mile north of Illinois Route 176. At that point, Banuelos was rear-ended by a semi-tractor-trailer driven by the defendant Dezell Kelley, pushing Banuelos\u2019 truck into a ditch causing his serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Banuelos claimed that he had slowed down in advance of his turn, that his flashers were engaged and signs were present warning drivers of a flagger ahead and the trucks were entering and exiting this highway.<\/p>\n<p>Two witnesses confirmed that Banuelos had slowed and his flashers were on. Banuelos was 39 years old at the time of the crash. He sustained a herniated L5-S1 disc that required a discectomy and fusion, a torn meniscus in his right knee that required arthroscopic surgery and a herniated C5-6 disc requiring treatment and future fusion surgery, all leaving him unable to return to work as a truck driver.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/219000-cook-county-jury-verdict-rear-end-truck-collision-construction-zone\/#more-4093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 11, 2009, Manuel Banuelos was driving a dump truck through a construction zone on northbound Interstate 94 in Lake County, Ill., when he attempted to turn into a construction site a quarter-mile north of Illinois Route 176. At that point, Banuelos was rear-ended by a semi-tractor-trailer driven by the defendant Dezell Kelley, pushing [&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":[88,6,128,111,114,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-neck-injuries","category-construction-injuries","category-rear-end-crash","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-spine-injury","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>$219,000 Cook County Jury Verdict in Rear-End Truck Collision in Construction Zone &#8212; 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