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Pa. Jury Awards $10M to Teen Injured Wearing Lap Belt in Crash

East News • February 11, 2008
A Pennsylvania jury awarded $10.2 million to a teenager who was paralyzed in a drunken driving crash while wearing a lap belt in the backseat. The belt tore into Chelsea Pursell's abdomen, ...

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Subject: It Ain't Gonna Change

Posted On: February 11, 2008, 1:32 pm CST
Posted By: Dreadd
Comment:
We're all preaching to the choir. Our legal system is flawed and juries have proven time and time again they are incapable of rendering a common sense, objective, un-emotional verdict. A rear seat belt is neither designed nor intended to be 100% effective when a speeding car slams into a utility pole broadside at a high rate of speed. She was probably hurt most seriously of all because the other un-belted idiots in the back seat got thrown into her. The law of physics does that to you. Money is king.
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RE: Assumption of risk? JGD
Feb 14, 2008, 7:07 am
RE: Forest Gump on the Jury? Dread
Feb 12, 2008, 8:23 am
Forest Gump on the Jury? johnny
Feb 11, 2008, 4:10 pm
RE: RE: RE: RE: Jury Duty lastbat
Feb 11, 2008, 3:18 pm
RE: RE: RE: Jury Duty wudchuck
Feb 11, 2008, 2:49 pm
RE: RE: Jury Duty Randy
Feb 11, 2008, 2:12 pm
RE: Jury Duty I want to see other verdicts
Feb 11, 2008, 1:55 pm
RE: Jury Duty Eli
Feb 11, 2008, 1:55 pm
Jury Duty rum and coke
Feb 11, 2008, 1:39 pm
Money for Misery Calif Ex Pat
Feb 11, 2008, 1:33 pm
It Ain't Gonna Change Dreadd
Feb 11, 2008, 1:32 pm
RE: MONEY?! lastbat
Feb 11, 2008, 12:54 pm
RE: MONEY?! SWFL Mark
Feb 11, 2008, 12:48 pm
MONEY?! wudchuck
Feb 11, 2008, 12:27 pm
RE: Wait... the POLE was 10% at fault? DWT
Feb 11, 2008, 11:49 am
RE: Wait... the POLE was 10% at fault? Stat Guy
Feb 11, 2008, 9:43 am
Wait... the POLE was 10% at fault? Anon
Feb 11, 2008, 9:29 am
Assumption of risk? Dustin
Feb 11, 2008, 7:45 am
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