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Jury
Awards $1.7 Million for Injuries in Two Crashes
Published on March 2, 2000
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A jury Wednesday ordered insurance carriers for two motorists to pay a Depew woman $1.7 million as compensation for permanent neck and back injuries suffered in 1997 car crashes.
Following a 21/2-week trial before State Supreme Court Justice John A. Michalek, a jury deliberated 41/2 hours before finding Walter Ozog, 55, of Amherst, and Adam Tabelski, 21, of Medina, equally at fault for the two Transit Road crashes that injured Laura Ferguson.
Attorney for Ferguson, Christopher J. O'Brien, said Ozog struck her car from behind as she stopped for a red light at Sheridan Drive while heading north on Transit in Amherst about 11:30 a.m. Jan. 30, 1997. She suffered neck and back injuries in that crash and then, at 4:30 p.m. March 16, 1997, her car was struck from behind by Tabelski as she was turning from Transit onto Gould Avenue in Depew.
At the time of the crashes, Ferguson, 33, a Depew mother of two, was a part-time waitress at the Transit Valley Country Club. Reportedly she still suffers excruciating headaches.