A jury in California awarded $2 million to the family of a woman killed in an auto accident at a dangerous intersection in 2008.
According to Madera County Superior Court documents, 31 year-old Suzanna V. Coronado was killed in a car accident on July 5, 2008, at an intersection the jury found to be a dangerous condition of public property.
Coronado and her husband Michael were riding a motorcycle southbound on Highway 41 when a vehicle driven by Alexander Huerta pulled out from Road 416 to travel north on the highway. When Coronado rounded the curve on a downhill grade the motorcycle went down because Huerta’s vehicle was completely obstructing the southbound lanes.
Michael Coronado filed a lawsuit against the State of California Department of Transportation alleging that the intersection where the accident occurred was in a dangerous condition and that the Caltrans had notice of a lengthy history of broadside-patterned accident at the intersection. The jury agreed with Coronado and returned a verdict of slightly more than $2 million.
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