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Fatal Hit and Run, Postal workers' family awarded wrongful death settlement
Roanoke, VA: (Sep-27-07) The family of John William Edmonds Jr., a US Postal Service worker, brought a lawsuit against Terrance Wayne Dickerson, after Edmonds died in a 2004 hit and run accident. Dickerson panicked and drove off. He returned about half an hour later and turned himself in to police. Dickerson, 41, pleaded guilty in January 2005 to felony hit and run in the death of John William Edmonds Jr. and received a five-year prison sentence, suspended after he served six months. The suit claimed that driving in the early hours of June 6, 2004, Dickerson struck Edmonds as the 52-year-old was walking at the intersection of Norris Drive and Andrews Road Northwest in Roanoke. Edmonds died in a hospital about two months later.
In a settlement reached, Roanoke Circuit Court Judge William Broadhurst approved a $125,000 payout to the victim's family. $100,000 from Dickerson's insurance and $25,000 from Edmonds' underinsured motorist policy will be used to pay medical expenses, funeral costs and legal fees. About $40,000 will go to Edmonds' wife and three children. [ROANOKE TIMES: FATAL HIT AND RUN]
Published on Sep-27-07
In a settlement reached, Roanoke Circuit Court Judge William Broadhurst approved a $125,000 payout to the victim's family. $100,000 from Dickerson's insurance and $25,000 from Edmonds' underinsured motorist policy will be used to pay medical expenses, funeral costs and legal fees. About $40,000 will go to Edmonds' wife and three children. [ROANOKE TIMES: FATAL HIT AND RUN]
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