Pedestrian hit and knocked down in parking lot of supermarket

$850,000

A woman pushing her supermarket carriage with groceries across the marked crosswalk lines in the parking lot of the market was hit by an automobile and knocked down. The front tire on the driver’s side ran over the shopper’s lower leg causing a severed fracture to the ankle that required surgery and plates and comminuted fracture to her tibia requiring a rod and screws and also a torn meniscus that was repaired by arthroscopic surgery. She endured a long period of PT and disability and eventually returned to work part time. The case was put into suit within a few weeks of the crash. The driver of the car was too busy looking for an open parking space on a busy rainy afternoon and was not paying attention to pedestrians and did not see the woman she knocked down until after she heard a noise and stopped. The case was settled for a very high six figure amount on behalf of her and her husband who had brought a loss of consortium claim.