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Washington Court Restores $14 Million Award

By erink

On Thursday, July 16, the Supreme Court in Washington unanimously reinstated a $14 million award to a DUI accident victim. In April 2000, Hawkeye Kinkaid was drinking at the Bellingham Moose Lodge, where is girlfriend, Alexis Chapman, was serving him as a bartender. The forensic consultant found that Kinkaid probably drank the equivalent 21 12-ounce beers or 30 ounces 80-proof alcohol.  His blood alcohol content was believed to be .32 at the time of the collision. While he was driving home, Kinkaid crossed the center line in Ferndale, Wash. and struck Bianca Faust’s car. Fraust, from New York City, was driving with her two children and grandchild. Everyone in Faust’s car was injured and Kinkaid was killed. The accident left Faust’s 7-year-old son, Christopher, a paraplegic...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).