{"id":4827,"date":"2015-03-13T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:30:41","slug":"jury-verdict-defendant-bicycle-car-collision-chicago-loop-intersection-parties-claimed-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-verdict-defendant-bicycle-car-collision-chicago-loop-intersection-parties-claimed-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Verdict for Defendant in Bicycle-Car Collision in Chicago Loop Intersection Where Both Parties Claimed Green Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 21, 2012, Matthew Lyman, 19, was driving his bicycle northbound on by the defendant, Thomas Garcia. Garcia&#8217;s car was traveling westbound on Congress Parkway. Matthew sustained a fractured left wrist, which required open reduction internal fixation with a plate and ten screws. A 3-inch surgical scar was left on his wrist, he had road rash on the left side of his torso and his left arm. He also suffered permanent discoloration of the skin on his left arm from the road rash.Lyman had $34,332 in medical expenses along with $3,800 in lost time from his job as a bicycle mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that he entered the intersection (Congress and Michigan) on a green light and that the light was yellow when the crash occurred. The defendant Garcia argued that his light was green as he approached and entered the intersection and there were no vehicles or bikes when he entered it. Garcia maintained that Lyman ran a red light on his bike.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said Lyman and his friend, who was on another bike, were one-third of a block away from the intersection when their light changed to yellow. They decided to pedal faster to beat the light instead of slowing down and stopping. The light turned red prior to the crash, and Garcia could not see Lyman before the impact because Lyman came from his driver\u2019s side behind the mirror, which was where the initial point of contact occurred.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-verdict-defendant-bicycle-car-collision-chicago-loop-intersection-parties-claimed-green-light\/#more-4827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 21, 2012, Matthew Lyman, 19, was driving his bicycle northbound on by the defendant, Thomas Garcia. Garcia&#8217;s car was traveling westbound on Congress Parkway. Matthew sustained a fractured left wrist, which required open reduction internal fixation with a plate and ten screws. A 3-inch surgical scar was left on his wrist, he had [&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":[45,44,150,160,87,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-bicycle-accidents","category-evidence","category-hand-injury-accidents","category-intersection-crash","category-lost-income"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jury Verdict for Defendant in Bicycle-Car Collision in Chicago Loop Intersection Where Both Parties Claimed Green Light &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On June 21, 2012, Matthew Lyman, 19, was driving his bicycle northbound on by the defendant, Thomas Garcia. 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