IL: Chicago Transit worker Awarded $2.5M in 2012 Train Crash

Nov. 17, 2016
A jury has ruled the city of Chicago must pay nearly $2.5 million to a Chicago Transit Authority train operator who was injured after a police car chasing a bicyclist ran into a Brown Line train.

A jury has ruled the city of Chicago must pay nearly $2.5 million to a Chicago Transit Authority train operator who was injured after a police car chasing a bicyclist ran into a Brown Line train.

CTA worker Jeffery Bryant's attorneys told the Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/2eM16hs ) that a Cook County jury ruled last week in favor of their client, who suffered a serious spinal injury after the August 2012 crash in the Albany Park neighborhood.

The suit hinged on an interpretation of a Chicago Police Department policy that requires officers to weigh the need to pursue a suspect against the danger created by a chase. The city had argued the rule only applies to cases in which a police car pursues another vehicle, but Bryant's attorneys said the order should govern all police cars regardless of the suspect's mode of transportation.

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