NEW YORK (CNN) — A Manhattan jury awarded $2.33 million to a man who lost his leg after drunkenly stumbling onto the path of an oncoming subway train.
Dustin Dibble fell on New York subway tracks, was hit by a train and had his leg severed in 2006.
Dustin Dibble, 25, landed in the subway tracks after a late night watching a hockey game at a bar with friends April 23, 2006. A downtown N train ran over him, severing his right leg.
According to Dibble’s lawyer, Andrew Smiley, NYC Transit rather than Dibble bore primary responsibility for the accident because the subway driver had time to stop the train but did not.
Smiley added that Dibble’s drunkenness did not excuse the driver, who said in a court deposition that he mistook Dibble for an inert object.
(via CNN)
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Don't blame Dibble, the MTA or the lawyer for lawsuits like this. Blame the idiots on the juries who keep rewarding stupidity with millions of dollars.
I'm sure you have just as much information in your living room court as the jury did who decided this case. It sounds like the MTA was rightly found to be partly responsible since the driver could have stopped in time but made a bad decision not to at first. Forget about Dibble – if you take the subway, it should scare you a bit that a train driver would choose to keep going after seeing something in the tracks at a platform in a station.