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Settlement Reached In Crash
Resulting in Brain Injury
By Robert Storace
Vincente Santiago suffered a head injury and a brain bleed after motorist Divina Anderson struck this car that he
A was driving in Plainville in June 2019. The case recently settled for $350,000. Courtesy photo
witness to a rollover crash coupled with the “That witness saw Divina Anderson’s vehicle clip
lifestyle of the 86-year-old driver before the my client’s car, which rolled over. The witness was
accident helped clinch a $350,000 settlement driving at the scene on Route 72 in Plainville and
for plaintiffs counsel Bruce Newman. waited for police to arrive to tell them what he saw,”
Newman, a partner with Brown, Paindiris & Scott Newman said Monday.
in Hartford, said the testimony of the witness driver Newman continued: “That witness saw the An-
“was huge and important” because his client, Vincen- derson vehicle go from the center lane to the left
te Santiago, had no memory of the June 2019 accident lane and then striking my client’s vehicle.”
in Plainville in which his vehicle turned upside down Anderson was given an infraction for failure to
after the impact from another motorist’s car. maintain a travel lane.
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