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A female motorist has filed a personal injury lawsuit stating that an accident involving her car and a suburban Philadelphia landscaping business’s equipment caused her to suffer brain damage. The accident took place on Sept. 23, 2010 at approximately 3:30 p.m. Reportedly, the motorist was driving her 1999 Volkswagen Beatle when her vehicle was hit by a Brush Chipper. The equipment had flown off a GMC Topkick truck, owned and operated by Corbo Landscaping.
As a result, the lawsuit states, the woman suffered a variety of injuries that were life-threatening or severe, including brain damage. The lawsuit states that the reason the chipper had become separated was because the hitch connecting it to the truck severed. This caused the chipper to fly across the center line in the road, smashing into the woman’s car on the driver’s side as her car and the truck traveled in opposite directions down the highway.
Following the collision, the woman states, she suffered a concussion, followed by headaches, which were excruciating and persistent. She also experienced memory loss, dizziness, stuttering speech, attention difficulties, severe pain in her neck, back, and left arm, and shooting pains which traveled through her legs. The brain damage caused her to have cognitive problems and to suffer emotional and psychiatric difficulties, the lawsuit states.
The woman now reportedly has difficulties carrying on with her normal activities. She charges that the defendants, including the landscaping company and two equipment companies, were reckless and grossly negligent in allowing the chipper to be thrown free on the highway, failing to adequately secure it to the truck or to adequately inspect the hitch prior to taking the equipment on the road. Compensatory damages in excess of $50,000 are sought, along with interest and the expenses of the litigation.
Source: The Pennsylvania Record, “Brain damage victim who was struck by landscaping equipment sues suburban Phila. company,” Jon Campisi, Aug. 29, 2012