{"id":6772,"date":"2018-04-11T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2018-04-08T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T13:12:01","slug":"6-75-million-settlement-death-passenger-injury-driver-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-75-million-settlement-death-passenger-injury-driver-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"$6.75 Million Settlement in Death of Passenger and Injury to Driver in Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Dempsey, 78, was driving his SUV on a busy four-lane highway during a cross-country trip. He exited the highway to use a restroom. His car approached a line of stopped cars, but he was unable to take his foot off the accelerator and swerved his SUV onto a grassy median, which led the SUV to accelerate and hit a deep drainage ditch.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Dempsey\u2019s SUV became airborne and eventually landed on top of a truck driven by plaintiff Boris Woodard. The impact caused both the Dempsey SUV and the Woodard truck to cross two lanes of traffic and roll down an embankment.<\/p>\n<p>Woodard suffered eye injuries and bruising. Much worse and tragic was the witnessing of the injury and subsequent death of Woodard\u2019s 25-year-old daughter who was his passenger. Anna Woodard lapsed into a coma and was hospitalized for nine days after the crash before she died. She was a student who had hoped to work in childcare. She is survived by her parents. Her medical expenses were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-75-million-settlement-death-passenger-injury-driver-car-crash\/#more-6772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Dempsey, 78, was driving his SUV on a busy four-lane highway during a cross-country trip. He exited the highway to use a restroom. 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