West Palm Beach Jury Awards $6M to Family of Teen Killed in Florida Traffic Accident
The family of a teenager killed in a speeding related car crash in 2003 has been awarded $6 million by a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida.
According to the Palm Beach Post, driver Carlos Pozo is serving a 5.5 year sentence in adult prison for vehicular homicide in a fatal Palm Beach County car accident that took place in November 2003.
CBS News 12 reported that Mr. Pozo was driving his Acura at extreme speeds on residential roads in the Palm Beach Gardens' PGA National community, when he lost control of his vehicle, slamming into trees. Kaitlin Kazanjian, age 16, was ejected from her seatbelt by the impact and killed. News media reported that the car was cut in two.
The parents of Ms. Kazanjian pursued a civil lawsuit in a West Palm Beach, Florida court, they said, so that the story of their daughter and her lost potential could be told. The car crash victim's father is a sergeant in the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
An experienced Palm Beach County injury lawyer is aware of the potentially fatal combination of motor vehicles, speeding and young drivers. A study by the AAA Foundation revealed that teenaged drivers do not have the life experience and judgment to handle vehicles at high rates of speed, particularly with friends in the car. (Source: Teen Crashes -- Everyone Is at Risk, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Feb. 2009.)
Jury awards $6 million to parents of 16-year-old killed in crash
Palm Beach Post June 12, 2010
Family of girl killed in crash awarded $6 million
CBS12.com June 12, 2010
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