Nov 27, 2007 5:24 pm US/Pacific
Quadriplegic Women To Split $50M Settlement
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ―
The city of Dana Point has agreed to pay $50 million to two women who became quadriplegic after a car struck them as they jogged in a bike lane.
Forty-two-year-old Carol Daniel and 35-year-old Stacy Neria will split the money under a settlement agreement signed Tuesday before Orange County Superior Court Judge Warren Siegel.
The women's civil lawsuit over the April 2006 accident had been scheduled for trial Tuesday.
The hit-and-run driver, William Todd Bradshaw, is serving four years in state prison.
An attorney for the two women argued that the 12-foot-wide bike lane was so big drivers mistook it for another driving lane. He also argued that the city failed to properly mark the bike lane after a similar accident a decade before.
Dana Point has since created a concrete barrier between the bike lane and the road.
(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
