Post by Logan on Jul 8, 2016 23:40:37 GMT -6
Cyclist pedals into cable strung across road, fractures spine and ribs, sues for $342,000
A 64-year-old cyclist who fractured his spine and three ribs after he rode into a Comcast cable that was strung across a Southeast Portland street filed a $342,000 lawsuit this week.
A Comcast subcontractor had strung the "skinny black" cable across the road at an elevated level, but still low enough for a Portland Disposal & Recycling truck to snag it and pull it down so it was suspended at "neck level" of Michael A. Horner, said Horner's Portland attorney, Mark Ginsberg.
"All of a sudden, (bam) he gets clotheslined," Ginsberg told The Oregonian/OregonLive. "He lands on his back and fractures a lot of things."
Horner is suing Comcast as well as Portland Disposal. Both companies declined to offer comment for this story.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/07/cyclist_pedals_into_cable_stru.html
A 64-year-old cyclist who fractured his spine and three ribs after he rode into a Comcast cable that was strung across a Southeast Portland street filed a $342,000 lawsuit this week.
A Comcast subcontractor had strung the "skinny black" cable across the road at an elevated level, but still low enough for a Portland Disposal & Recycling truck to snag it and pull it down so it was suspended at "neck level" of Michael A. Horner, said Horner's Portland attorney, Mark Ginsberg.
"All of a sudden, (bam) he gets clotheslined," Ginsberg told The Oregonian/OregonLive. "He lands on his back and fractures a lot of things."
Horner is suing Comcast as well as Portland Disposal. Both companies declined to offer comment for this story.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/07/cyclist_pedals_into_cable_stru.html