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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.

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