According to the Jere Beasley Report, a Mississippi jury has awarded $30 million to teenager Ethan Bryant and his parents in a lawsuit arising out of a highway crash.
The teenager was severely injured following a deadly truck accident in August 2006. Ethan was 16 years old when he and a friend, Patrick Taylor, drove through an intersection in Southaven, Mississippi, near the Tennessee border.
A gravel truck driven by Chad McCarty was unable to stop at the intersection's traffic signal, which was red for him, and crashed into Ethan‘s Dodge Dakota. The force of the impact caused the boy's vehicle to careen about 100 feet away from the intersection. His friend, Patrick, was killed in the crash at the scene. Ethan lapsed into an eight-month coma. After awakening from the coma, he developed a severe disorder limiting oxygen to the brain. Ethan now suffers from quadriplegia and episodic seizures.
Read more about this serious truck accident in our next blog.
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