{"id":5204,"date":"2015-05-27T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:36:28","slug":"312940-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-truck-car-sideswipe-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/312940-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-truck-car-sideswipe-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"$312,940 Cook County Jury Verdict in Truck-Car Sideswipe Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14, 2009, the plaintiff Evaristo Hernandez, a 39-year-old truck driver, was driving a 63-foot semi-tractor-trailer during his employment for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transforce.com\/\">Transforce Trucking<\/a>. After Hernandez finished his deliveries that day, he began driving back to his truck yard and was traveling eastbound on 31st Street in Chicago when he stopped for a red light at Western Avenue. That intersection is a T-intersection. Hernandez put on his right turn signal to show that he was about to make a right turn.<\/p>\n<p>At this intersection, 31st Street has only one lane for eastbound traffic plus an adjacent bicycle lane to the right in which cars are not permitted to drive.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, Gina Valenzio, was eastbound in her SUV and approached Hernandez\u2019s truck from behind. Instead of stopping behind Hernandez, Valenzio drove her SUV into the bike lane along the right side of the Hernandez truck in order to make her right turn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/312940-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-truck-car-sideswipe-crash\/#more-5204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14, 2009, the plaintiff Evaristo Hernandez, a 39-year-old truck driver, was driving a 63-foot semi-tractor-trailer during his employment for Transforce Trucking. After Hernandez finished his deliveries that day, he began driving back to his truck yard and was traveling eastbound on 31st Street in Chicago when he stopped for a red light at [&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":[45,87,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-intersection-crash","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$312,940 Cook County Jury Verdict in Truck-Car Sideswipe Crash &#8212; 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