Posted on 08/02/2009 12:29:51 AM PDT by Company Man
SALEM — The driver of a minivan who was seriously injured when she was struck head-on by a drag-racing teenager doing 81 mph is now being sued by the teenager's passenger, who was also injured.
A lawsuit filed yesterday in Salem Superior Court suggests that Christine Speliotis "carelessly and negligent (sic) failed to avoid the collision with the other vehicle head on."
The lawsuit was filed by the father of Brandon Pereira, 17, of Peabody, the cousin of Timothy Pereira, the driver of the speeding Ford Mustang.
Timothy Pereira, 19, of Salem is out on bail awaiting trial on charges that include racing, speeding, driving to endanger and failing to stay within marked lanes.
Investigators from the Salem and state police concluded that Timothy Pereira was going 81 mph on Fort Avenue, a road with a 30 mph speed limit, when he lost control, veering across the center lines and into the path of a Honda Odyssey minivan.
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Is the court likely to look with favor upon this suit? It defies logic.
Only “solution” to that is a bigger counter-suit against this idiot passenger, for “not doing more to keep his cousin (the ‘teen driver’) from driving recklessly while he is a passenger.”
No words to describe this.
Nevada law allows people to sue their own spouses in similar scenarios.
It’s gosh-darned wacky!! In fact I’m gobsmacked.
That comment replaces (^%#@$%^&*(&^%$#$%^&!!!
Which is what I wanted to say.
Hughes defended the filing of the lawsuit yesterday, saying it's his obligation to recover as much as possible in damages for his client. The complaint lists $350,000 in medical bills to date and another $100,000 in anticipated expenses.
"Basically, under Massachusetts law I'm trying to get compensation for my client anywhere I can," Hughes said yesterday.
He said he has also pursued a claim against Timothy Pereira's insurer, which is expected to lead to a settlement. "I'm pursuing all avenues," Hughes said.
Hughes said he is still awaiting the final accident reconstruction report and did not want to comment on exactly how he would show that Speliotis could have done something to avoid the accident.
This lawyer is a snake!
(yawn)
People who live in Massachusetts deserve everything they get.
Speliotis, the minivan driver, had already filed a lawsuit against Timothy Pereira in April, seeking damages of at least $88,000 for medical bills and other expenses. She suffered a fractured hip and leg and had to undergo surgery to insert metal rods and screws to repair the damage.
- I hope it wasn't a “classic” Mustang? To wreck such a car is a crime itself.
My best friend over here in Sweden owned a very nice Mustang from the sixties when we were around 18 (this was 20 years ago) and a friend of his owned a new Ferrari.
Today, the Mustang is probably worth more than the Ferrari and my friend often tells me how angry he is with himself for having sold it.
In every state, the law is first and foremost for the financial benefit of the filthy greedy disgusting legal profession, rather than the citizens.
An example of the DNC Lawyer party in action.
Nice replacement. We after all aren’t the DUmpster with every other word the “f” word.
The court will look with favor upon whatever stuffs the most money into the bulging pockets of the "honorable" members of the Bar on both sides of the case.
The law is written by the lawyer scum, for the enrichment of the lawyer scum. Any benefit to the public is purely incidental. We would be better off under the law of the jungle than under this filthy greedy Mafia.
Did you know that legal judgments are one of only a handful of types of debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy? A grifter can stiff the doctor that saved his life, or the alimony owed to his wife, but the scum sucking lawyer shark ALWAYS gets his 33% plus richly-padded expenses.
I'd disown my son if he went into that filthy, dirty, greedy, evil profession.
- What an adult remark.
Please tell me why Americans seldom have something positive to say about other parts of their nation.
We Europeans (I'm Swedish) despise different aspects of each others national culture, yes, BUT just as often you hear people from Britain talking about how much they love Spain, Italians talking about what a great time the had in Denmark and so on. I never hear similar things from Americans, even though most Americans, rightfully, are proud over the nation as a whole (- and no, I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that you are a federation of states and the EU is a union of nations).
I like most of the American members of this site, but you guys don't seem to like the other corners of your great that much.
I haven't been to Massachusetts, but I'm pretty sure there are all kinds of people there, including a lot of patriotic, hard working, law abiding citizens.
Beg to differ?
LOL. There you go...good idea.
Correction:
“I like most of the American members of this site, but you guys don’t seem to like the other corners of your great NATION that much”.
Apologies from across the pond.
“Please tell me why Americans seldom have something positive to say about other parts of their nation.”
While it is not nice to wish ill on any state, I think he was referring to the fact that Massachusetts is VERY liberal, and they continue to elect the very liberal swimmer to the Senate.
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