An Iraq War veteran has been awarded over $21 million after a devastating car accident resulted in a number of fractures and a stroke that left him with permanent injuries. The vet, Michael Nelson, was only 27 years old when he was rear ended by a Hillyard Inc. truck driver.
Nelson’s Orange County personal injury attorney says the veteran was in a passenger vehicle that was traveling only 15 miles per hour, when he was rear ended by the van that was going over 80 miles per hour. Nelson suffered from a broken femur and a number of other fractures. A blot clot caused by the accident result in his suffering from a stroke soon after as well. The stroke, unfortunately, damaged most of the left portion of his brain.
At the time of the accident, Nelson was studying at the California Art Institute after he completed three tours of duty in Iraq.
To read more about the accident and the settlement, see the article on AboutLawsuits.com. Illustrative image courtesy of Johnath [Flickr].
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