Daily Mail reports a teenager killed while crossing train tracks can be sued for injuries caused to a woman on the platform, when one of his severed body parts hit her, a court has ruled.
Hiroyuki Joho, 18, died when he ran in front of a 70mph Amtrak train at Edgebrook Metra station in Chicago in 2008. It was pouring with rain and the teen had an umbrella over his head.
His body was severed on impact, and a large part became airborne, flying about 100 feet onto the southbound platform, where it hit a commuter.
Gayane Zokhrabov, 58, was knocked to the ground, her leg and wrist broken and her shoulder injured, the Chicago Tribune reported.
A Cook County court judge initially dismissed Zokhrabov's lawsuit against the boy's estate, ruling that Joho could not possibly have anticipated Zokhrabov's injuries.
But ruling in what it called a 'tragically bizarre' case, a state appeals court disagreed.
It found that 'it was reasonably foreseeable' that the high-speed train would kill the college hopeful and fling his body toward a platform where people were waiting.
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I think this is a ridiculous ruling. I bet the woman wasn’t even paying attention. Body parts fly around all the time in my neighborhood.
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