$5 million settlement for student hit by bus
Tribune staff reports
Published February 22, 2006, 9:14 PM CST
The Chicago Transit Authority has agreed to pay $5 million to a
University of Chicago student who was severely injured after she was
struck by a CTA bus in Hyde Park in 2001, according to a copy of the
agreement.
Ki Shih was bicycling to class on Hyde Park Boulevard when a bus
traveling in the same direction hit her, knocked her off her bicycle
and ran over her, according to a copy of the lawsuit filed against the
CTA and the bus driver.
Shih suffered multiple fractures in her pelvis and lost the skin off
her heel, according to one of her attorneys, Greg Harris of Maywood.
Harris and Leonard Becker, who also represented Shih, said the bus was
pulling to a stop when it cut her off. But the CTA believes that Shih
was responsible.