The Union Leader has reported that Kim Kyle has settled her lawsuit for 2.5 million dollars for an auto accident in which her son Brendon was killed. On Valentine’s Day in 2007, she and her son had stayed in Lowell, Massachusetts because of a snowstorm. The next day when she tried to call in about not going in to work she was told that if she didn’t come she’d be fired. She was a nursing student and was working at a Derry, NH nursing home at the time.
She strapped Brendon into his car seat and left for Derry planning on dropping him off at her mother’s in Londonderry, NH. Near exit 4 on Route 93, a tractor-trailer that was passing her in the left lane jackknifed next to her and dragged her car about 600 feet.
Her son’s neck was broken and he died instantly. She suffered a broken right hip, a collapsed lung, lacerated liver, concussion and her scalp was torn from her head. Hydraulic tools were used to extricate her and Brandon from the wreck.
The truck’s Canadian owner, Fidele Tremblay Inc. and the driver, Francis Hammond were sued for 30 million dollars in federal court in October, 2007. The suit alleged that Hammond was negligent in driving too fast for the poor road conditions at the time.
A jury trial was scheduled to begin in a few weeks but the settlement was reached last Friday. According to the settlement, neither the driver nor the company accepted fault for the accident.
Jim
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