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December 11, 2013

$80M judgment awarded Redi-Mix truck accident

  • The lawsuit claimed the semi involved in the fatal 2002 crash had expired registration, bad brakes and a driver with two DWI charges.
    • By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
    Associated Press

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the family of a New Mexico woman who died in 2002 when a tractor-trailer struck her car and buried it in sand, suffocating the woman as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.

    Laura Miera of Albuquerque had just dropped off her 14-year-old daughter at Jimmy Carter Middle School and was waiting at a traffic light when the semi exited Interstate 40 and came barreling toward her.


     
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