BEDFORD MAN GIVEN $1.5 MILLION IN CRASH

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030238
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Mark Morrison
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BEDFORD MAN GIVEN $1.5 MILLION IN CRASH
A Bedford County man whose wife was killed and infant son injured in September when a runaway trailer crushed their car in Lynchburg was awarded $1.5 million in a lawsuit settled Monday in Bedford County Circuit Court.
Emory H. Johnson Jr. sued Roger Thomas Pleasants of Danville and Leonard Aluminum Utility Buildings, a North Carolina-based company, asking for $4.9 million in damages.
He claimed that Pleasants, an employee of Leonard Aluminum, failed to safely hitch a trailer hauling one of the company's mobile utility buildings to the pickup truck he was driving on U.S. 501 in Lynchburg.
The trailer broke loose from the truck and hit the station wagon driven by Johnson's wife, Shirley Spinner Johnson, 39. She was killed. Their infant son, Emory H. Johnson III, was seriously injured.
Keywords:
FATALITY
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB