ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) – A judge has awarded nearly US$80 million (S$100 million) to the family of a 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.
Mrs Laura Miera 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 a freeway and came barreling toward her.
The Albuquerque Redi-Mix truck pushed her car to the curb, it rolled, and Mrs Miera was trapped as the semi’s open load of sand poured on top of her.
Teachers, students and others on their way to the school tried to dig out the 48-year-old woman by hand. One counsellor tried to comfort Mrs Miera as the car filled with sand.
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Post time: Apr-30-2017