Total Injury

No, it’s not some cliffhanger to the season finale of some popular television show but rather a real-life personal injury case that is to be continued. A medical emergency has forced an Illinois judge to stop a personal injury case in which William Clawson was suing the man who repossessed his car. Clawson had claimed that he suffered severe neck injuries and medical anguish when he drove a golf cart in front of his car on February 27, 2005. Clawson has also alleged that he thought his car was being stolen (it was actually being repossessed) and thus drove the golf cart in front of it. While on the way to court to testify as a key witness in the trial last week, Clawson’s wife suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized; thus prompting Madison County Circuit Judge David Hylla to reassign the case to June 18^th.

While he had been seeking $100,000 in damages, Clawson must now wait for his wife to recover from her own physical damages. Hylla has said that 11 of the original 13 jurors in the case will continue in the case, and that he will choose two replacement jurors before the trial begins. Read more about this interesting personal injury case in this story from The Madison County Record.