Chicago Area Monster Truck Show Results in Lawsuit
A Chicago area monster truck giving a demonstration at a local NAPA Auto Parts store lost control and plowed through a crowd, injuring at least a dozen people.
DeKalb residents Mary Kate Sibley, James Vesely and Romanucci & Blandin client, Gregory Hessler, were among some 100 people standing on the sidewalk Thursday afternoon in the 100 block of North Sixth Street, watching a monster truck crush a row of four cars. Stephan Blandin, principal of Romanucci & Blandin, filed a transportation negligence lawsuit on August 15th seeking damages to our client for the negligent and wilful conduct of NAPA.
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The show, sponsored by DeKalb County Auto Parts, a NAPA Auto Parts dealer, took place on North Sixth Street between Lincoln Highway and the Union Pacific railroad tracks. The orange and blue monster truck emblazoned with the NAPA logo crushed four cars as part of the presentation, and with each pass over them, it edged closer to the dozens of people watching from the west sidewalk, witnesses said.
On the truck's fourth pass, witnesses said, it went airborne over the crushed vehicles. When it touched down on the other side, the truck kept going, plowing through the crowd and knocking down one panel of a wooden fence near the McDonald's property line. It then shot across the railroad tracks and hit a chain-link fence on the other side.
