Jury awards injured man $4 million in accident
********, a former Cheektowaga resident who suffered severe knee injuries when a minivan struck his sport utility vehicle head-on after being rear-ended, was awarded $4 million by a Buffalo jury Friday.
Following a two-week negligence trial before State Supreme Court Justice Rose H. Sconiers, the jury ordered the payment by Chrysler Financial Co. of Syracuse. The accident occured May 16, 2001, on Union Road in Cheektowaga. ********, a former Dennis Lane resident who later relocated to Orlando, Fla., had to be pulled out the driver’s window of his vehicle after the head-on crash that severely fractured his right kneecap. ********’s Buffalo attorney, John F. Maxwell, said ******** has been told by doctors he will face periodic kneecap replacement surgery for the rest of his life. – The Buffalo News