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Nurse Suffers Brain Damage In Crash, Gets $22.5M

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Mar 11, 2008 10:49 am US/Pacific

Nurse Suffers Brain Damage In Crash, Gets $22.5M

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) ― A motorist seriously hurt when a pickup truck involved in a Highway 101 crash landed on her vehicle is getting $22.5 million in one of Ventura County's largest recent personal injury awards.

A Superior Court jury decided late Friday that brain-damaged Dawn Renae Diaz should get $16 million for past and future medical care, as well as a nanny for her 10-year-old daughter. The rest of the money pays for lost wages, pain and suffering.

Diaz was an emergency room nurse at Community Memorial Hospital. She was driving on the Conejo Grade in Camarillo on Jan. 20, 2006, when the pickup landed on her car.

The pickup and a Peterbilt truck had collided moments earlier, sending the pickup into opposing traffic lanes.

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