Jury Awards Damages in Drunken Driving Fatality
The family of an Arizona boy killed by a drunken driver in 2008 was awarded $40 million last week by a Pima County jury. Jose Rincon Jr. was killed in January 2008 by a woman who crashed into him after a night drinking at a local Chuy’s restaurant. The jury divided up the settlement payments equally between the driver, the restaurant and the city of Tucson. The lawsuit claimed that certain repairs that had been planned for the road the accident occurred on by the city could have prevented the accident, but the city had scrapped the plans earlier the previous year.


