Kyung Eae Jung was sued by Barbara Hofschneider and Napu Inc.
The plaintiffs, through attorney Victorino Torres filed the complaint in Superior Court and are asking for compensatory damages, economic and non-economic damages, for medical care and expenses, bodily and special damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
The plaintiffs are also seeking for future damages economic and non-economic damages such as pain and suffering and necessary and reasonable medical expenses in the amount to be proven at trial; for pain and suffering, emotional distress, mental anguish and diminished quality of life; for costs and reasonable attorney’s fees; and for such other and further relief to which plaintiffs are entitled to receive at law.
The complaint stated that Hofschneider was traveling southbound on Chalan Pale Arnold on March 10, 2008, while Jung was traveling eastbound.
The complaint added that Jung failed to stop at the posted stop sign and instead violently entered the on-coming and heavy traffic causing immediate collision to several vehicles.
According to the complaint Jung was traveling at an alarming speed in excess of the posted speed.
Jung’s vehicle collided with another vehicle which collided into the plaintiff’s vehicle.
The plaintiff’s vehicle “spun haphazardly and was violently shaken and overturned and landed on its hood,” the complaint stated.
It added that the plaintiff was in the overturned vehicle for “agonizing minutes while awaiting for assistance to exit from the her vehicle.”
Napu Inc. was the registered owner of the vehicle that Hofschneider was operating.
The complaint stated that the head-on collision was not Hofschneider’s fault.
It added that the defendant failed to drive in a reasonable and prudent manner when she recklessly, carelessly and negligently caused the direct and proximate result of the collision between Hofschneider vehicle and the other vehicle.
The complaint stated that as a result of the defendant’s negligence, Hofschneider sustained economic and non-economic damages, loss of income, special damages, personal injuries, severe pain and suffering and emotional, mental distress and diminished quality of life.
The complaint added that because of defendant’s negligence, Napu Inc. also sustained damages including property and loss of use of its vehicle.
