Sacramento Pays $11M To Settle 2018 Crosswalk Crash That Killed Woman Walking With Grandson

SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) – Sacramento has paid $11 cardinal to settee a suit aft a car deed a lad and killed his grandma successful 2018, 1 of the city’s largest specified payouts.

QuiChang Zhu, 72, and her grandson Jian Hao Kuang, 6, were utilizing a crosswalk to Freeport Boulevard, but the intersection has nary postulation lights.

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A operator struck the pair, sidesplitting Zhu and severely injuring Kuang, causing imperishable encephalon damage, according to a suit filed successful Sacramento County Superior Court.

The colony was reached past twelvemonth but was archetypal reported Thursday by The Sacramento Bee, which obtained details done a California Public Records Act request.

The suit said the metropolis had appeared to region astir of the overgarment from the crosswalk, leaving down remnants of markings that “had the unsafe effect of being disposable to pedestrians giving the content the crossing was inactive intended to beryllium a marked crosswalk, but not being disposable to approaching motorists.”

The metropolis had besides removed pedestrian informing signs and painted beforehand warnings for motorists connected the roadway.

The intersection is adjacent an simple schoolhouse and a preschool.

City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood told the Bee the colony volition spell to a peculiar needs spot for Kuang. The suit said helium volition ne'er beryllium incapable to question regular employment.

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Wood called the lawsuit “certainly 1 of the (city’s) astir tragic.”

The paper said the colony appears to beryllium the largest metropolis payout since a $15 cardinal outgo to the household of a miss who died astatine a summertime campy successful 2016.

City spokesperson Tim Swanson said the colony whitethorn not person been discussed successful nationalist due to the fact that it was pending litigation, whitethorn person violated attorney/client privilege and due to the fact that the metropolis assembly took nary reportable enactment connected the lawsuit.

First Amendment Coalition enforcement manager David Snyder said that adjacent if determination is nary ineligible disclosure requirement, cities should denote settlements astatine nationalist meetings erstwhile they are last – peculiarly ample payments.

The colony was included successful a 320-page metropolis unit fund study issued past June.

The 22-year-old operator of the car that deed the 2 separately paid a $100,000 colony to the family.

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