{"id":4863,"date":"2015-02-23T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2015-02-22T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T01:18:59","slug":"345000-cook-county-jury-verdict-pedestrian-severely-injured-hit-car-helping-injured-dog-middle-roadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/345000-cook-county-jury-verdict-pedestrian-severely-injured-hit-car-helping-injured-dog-middle-roadway\/","title":{"rendered":"$345,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Pedestrian Severely Injured When Hit by Car Helping Injured Dog in Middle of Roadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 8, 2011, Mason Brandstedter was driving on Route 59 in West Chicago<\/a>, Ill., around 1:30 a.m. It was then that he discovered what appeared to be a dog, which was lying on the road and had clearly been injured. Brandstedter, 21, stopped his car facing southbound in the median turn lane and exited his car to see if he could help what amounted to a dying dog. Brandstedter recognized the dog and thought it belonged to a friend. Brandstedter and the dog were both partially in the northbound left lane and partly in the center turn lane.<\/p>\n

Brandstedter was crouched down next to the dog talking on his cell phone with the dog\u2019s owner, who Brandstedter knew, and with his back to approaching northbound traffic. He was hit by the defendant Richard Aubert\u2019s car, which was northbound.<\/p>\n

Brandstedter suffered a partially torn rotator cuff i<\/a>n his right shoulder and a partially torn labrum<\/a> in his right hip, both of which required arthroscopic surgery. In addition to $85,776 in past medical expenses, he lost six months of work as a cabinet maker because of his injuries.<\/p>\n

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