Lawyers for the family of a 4-year-old girl who was fatally struck by an unlicensed teenage driver say they will file a wrongful death action.
Attorneys representing the family of Ariel Russo planned a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Ariel and her grandmother were walking on the Upper West Side when they were struck by an SUV that jumped a curb on June 4.
Ariel’s grandmother remains hospitalized.
Seventeen-year-old Franklin Reyes is charged with vehicular manslaughter. He was driving with a learner’s permit.
Ariel’s mother, Sofia Russo, tells the Daily News that it took too long for an ambulance to reach her daughter.
The Fire Department blamed a four-minute delay on human error.
The city’s Law Department did not immediately respond to a comment request.
(AP)
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It costs very little to file a lawsuit, and for someone with “deep pockets” (i.e. the taxpayers) it is cheaper to pay a settlement rather than pay your own lawyers to win the case. From the perspective of logic and justice the system is a failure, but, it does give parnassah to many lawyers, and there are many frum lawyers.
Mr kuperman, may you never know the pain and grief associated with losing a child, nor the added grief from knowing that the death was criminal and there was no way to obtain medical assistance due to the 911 malfunction.
You can play the “ambulance chasing lawyers” card, just not here