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CARILLO v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 1-00-2902.

759 N.E.2d 99 (2001)

325 Ill. App.3d 955

259 Ill.Dec. 619

Lydia CARILLO and Angelo Carillo, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant (Kevin Gaczkowski, Defendant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

Rehearing Denied November 28, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donohue, Brown, Mathewson & Smyth, Chicago; Ford Motor Company, Office of the General Counsel, Dearborn, Michigan (John T. Coleman, Richard B. Foster, Mark H. Boyle, Karen Kies DeGrand, and Robert W. Powell, of counsel), for Appellant.

Bruce R. Pfaff and Michael T. Gill, Bruce R. Pfaff & Associates, Chicago (Michael W. Rathsack, of counsel), for Appellees.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

On the afternoon of December 14, 1993, Lydia Carillo was stopped at a red light in Hammond, Indiana. She was in a 1991 Ford Explorer. A car being driven by Kevin Gaczkowski at about 60 miles per hour plowed into the rear of the Explorer. The force of the impact caused Lydia's seatback to flatten. She was thrown into the rear seat of the car, fracturing two vertebrae in her back. She is paralyzed from the chest down...

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