Posted on 07/31/2024 8:48:21 PM PDT by xxqqzz
She had a broken back, 9 broken ribs, a broken leg, a broken arm, and brain damage.
In most stakes, you can get more suing the city or whatever than a private person, because the city has unlimited funds. However, in certain states, ones you might expect, including Virginia, Texas, Maine, and New Hampshire, there is sovereign immunity and you can't sue the government at all.
As I always say - know your jurisdiction.
Thanks for the info on the states!
Put that officer in a car on the tracks, see what she thinks of it, especially if you point at the signs before walking away.
The police force got a bargain deal over this incident.
“She had a broken back, 9 broken ribs, a broken leg, a broken arm, and brain damage.”
8.5M Seems low with all the future health problems she will have and since she will probably only see half. I have a distant relative that was T boned by a GOV. vehicle doing 70 through a school zone. They were in a comma for 3 months, got @ 20M.
EONS ago ... I was taught by both of my parents, my driving instructor, and a peace officer who visited the driving school ...
NEVER PARK OR STOP ON RAILROAD TRACKS.
No exceptions.
RE: Put that officer in a car on the tracks, see what she thinks of it....
https://www.efootage.com/videos/108230/helen-holmes-in-hazards-helen
Oh ... the cop(s) should pay out of their own pockets ... and face criminal negligence charges.
This fiasco was and is inexcusable.
Grateful Dead song
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
on the Anthem of the Sun album.
(Long but a few good minutes here and there.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JORq9cDNw
The Jackboot lickers, A/K/A, “she had it coming” will be along shortly.
Wasn’t that in a silent movie once?
More of the Sovereign Immunity mythology.
In Texas; “The Texas legislature has in fact enacted a limited waiver of immunity through the Texas Tort Claims Act. Under this act, a person may sue the state or a local government entity for “property damage, personal injury, and death proximately caused” by a public employee’s negligence, omission, or other “wrongful act” that occurs within that person’s “scope of employment.”
In other words, if you are injured in an accident caused by a sanitation worker driving a city-owned garbage truck, you can sue the city for damages. But if that same worker injures you off-the-job driving his own vehicle, the city cannot be held liable.”
I knew of a few classmates back in high school who, during their driving tests, stopped in the middle of railroad tracks behind vehicles lined up at a stop light. Instant FAIL for the driving tests. Lord knows how they treat drivers today.
I don’t know about Texas, but Virginia has real sovereign immunity. There was a case of someone whose car was hit by a garbage truck in Norfolk, and they got nothing. Garbage collection in Virginia is by the county.
All states, including Colorado where this accident occurred, have some form of sovereign immunity, particularly with respect to tort claims. That immunity typically extends to local governments. Most, if not all, states have statutes waiving that immunity under certain circumstances, though.
Not nearly enough, IMHO...
Pathetic excuse!
Maybe excuses Steinke parking the cop car at the RR crossing while the perp was still brandishing her firearm - but doesn't excuse subsequently walking the already apprehended and handcuffed perp back to the cop car and placing her into it!
Regards,
Juries treat our tax dollars as though they can grant lottery winnings. Lawyers are the real winners.
DEI
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