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Evansville Agrees To Pay $1.75M in Deadly Police Chase Crash

Evansville Agrees To Pay $1.75M in Deadly Police Chase Crash

Evansville Agrees To Pay $1.75M in Deadly Police Chase Crash

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The city of Evansville has agreed to pay a lady $1.75 million to resolve a lawsuit resulting from a 2017 police pursuit collision that killed her two children and husband and critically wounded her.

The Evansville City Council authorized funds from the city's insurance provider, allowing the southern Indiana city to reimburse the children's mother.

The woman's two children were killed in the accident. One of the children was two years old, while the other was seven months old. In November 2017, a guy being sought by Evansville police slammed into the family's vehicle. A month after the collision, the children's father died from brain injuries.

The woman was critically injured and was the lone survivor of the collision near Evansville, some 170 miles (270 kilometres) southwest of Indianapolis. She was pregnant at the time of the disaster and later gave birth to a daughter.

The plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the city in Vanderburgh Superior Court in 2018, demanding damages and alleging her two children unfairly died, and she was gravely wounded as a direct result of the driver's and the city's carelessness through the Evansville Police Department.

Police officers attempted to stop the accused in the collision because they suspected he was driving a car with a phoney licence plate. He fled, sparking a chase that ended when his car collided with the plaintiff's.

After pleading guilty to four charges of obstructing law enforcement, the accused was sentenced to 15 years in prison in March 2020.

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