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Cop gets $100,000 for injuries suffered in fatal 2003 collision A Vancouver cop has been awarded $100,000 for injuries he suffered in a high-speed collision that killed two people more than five years ago. Details of the out-of-court settlement for Sandeep Singh Buttar were revealed in a B.C. Supreme Court judgment released Wednesday that dealt with the issue of legal costs. Const. Buttar, 30 at the time, was a passenger in a police vehicle being driven at high speed by his partner, Const. Steve Vandenberg, when it smashed into a vehicle being driven by Benito Di Spirito near Boundary and East 22nd Avenue in Vancouver in June 2003. Di Spirito, 66, and his wife, Pasqualina Di Spirito, 65, were both killed. Buttar made various medical claims including a concussion, headaches and injuries to his neck, shoulder, wrist, knee and pelvic bone. Vandenberg, a rookie cop, later pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $1,500 but neither he nor the Vancouver police department could be named as a defendant in Buttar’s lawsuit because WCB legislation precluded such a move. Instead Buttar sued the estate of the fatal victims, who in a statement of defence denied liability and claimed that Vandenberg was to blame. In April last year, however, the defendants offered to settle for $100,000 plus legal costs, an offer that was accepted in November, just a week before trial. Buttar applied to have his additional legal costs incurred between April and November last year paid for by the defendants but B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow declined to make the order. The Di Spirito family also filed a lawsuit in the case but it, too, was settled out-of-court, for an undisclosed amount. http://www.theprovince.com/news/story.html?id=1228404 |
there's no fucking god... -_- |
some people. |
thats a lot of donuts. |
^don't forget the coffee |
^double double |
okay since I haven't slept very much in the past three days I want to make sure I am understanding that correctly. passenger cop is injured because the driver (another cop) is at fault. HOWEVER; injured cop isn't allowed to sue the driver cop or his employer and therefore sues the estate of innocent victims that the at fault cop driver crashed into (and WINS). Am I understanding that correct? |
WTF he gets $100,000? yet friends among me as well as ppl i heard are fucking hard as hell getting money out of fucking ICBC my friend got hit crossing the street, rolled couple times suffered bruises and shit, car was just making a left. fucking ICBC offered her bullshit $1g fuck i'd pay someone $1g just to watch them get hit and roll couple times wat the fuck is the point buying insurance with liability for $3 million dollar for when it seems u cant even get shit when u are the victim.. wat the fuck |
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I hope the cops go to hell. |
damn. it's good to be a cop. you get to walk around with a gun, drive like a fucking 16 year old, give tickets whenever (and to whoever) you feel like, and feel like a big man. we pay them to fuck with us. we pay them. to fuck with us. this makes sense, how? |
the victums probably got a couple mill from the VPD. so giving up 100k to the inocent passenger probably isn't a big deal. still freaking weird though. |
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lol.. tell you friend to get a better lawyer.. XD |
wtfwtfwtfwtfwtf. |
You kill 2 people and only pay a $1,500 fine? That's more fukt up than the $100,000 settlement. |
errr... he wasn't driving? So you guys are saying, if your injured while your friend was at the wheel, you wouldn't seek some kinda compensation? |
Instead Buttar sued the estate of the fatal victims, who in a statement of defence denied liability and claimed that Vandenberg was to blame. wow... |
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our legal system are corrupted as fuck. |
Sucks for that cop. He was a passenger, then everyone else in the crash dies, and he has no way to pay his medical bills. "The Di Spirito family also filed a lawsuit in the case but it, too, was settled out-of-court, for an undisclosed amount." I guess the family was all covered as they were not at fault. Maybe they helped the passenger officer out in the end. |
thats insane |
so thats how canadian justice system rolls noted for future reference... note to self: dont get hit by police car or am gonna end up getting royally fucked up the ass even if it wasnt my fault. oh yeh, did i mention i was dead already? |
wow |
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