A driver has been cleared in a vehicle crash that resulted in an injury. Driver Melvin Perez claimed Mariboys Sanchez’s unlit vehicle had hydroplaned and blocked a road in Okeechobee, causing him to strike a guardrail in an evasion maneuver in June 2014. Perez voiced emergency room neck complaints. He was ultimately diagnosed with C3-4 and C4-5 disc herniations, had a two-level cervical fusion, sued Sanchez and sought $750,000 in damages. But the defense argued Sanchez was not the cause of Perez’s collision. Defense counsel maintained Perez was speeding, and had he not been, he would have had adequate time to avoid the collision. The jury agreed, finding no negligence on Sanchez’s part.
Case: Perez v. Sanchez
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