Lyft Reaches a $26 Million Settlement Over Pedestrian Crash Involving a Pennsylvania Teen

A civil lawsuit filed against the ride share service Lyft Inc. and the driver related to a pedestrian crash that caused life changing and disabling injuries to a 15-year-old boy in Wilkes-Barre has settled for more than $26 million.

Yazmin M. Rohena, as guardianship of her brother, Jonatan Rosario Rohena, filed the suit through Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C., of Kingston, against Timothy W. Nevel and Lyft Inc. in Lackawanna County Court following the crash at South Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and East Northampton Street, Wilkes-Barre, on March 1, 2019.

According to a petition for compromise to settle the suit, Nevel, as a Lyft Inc. driver, was late picking up a fare and accelerated while driving south on South Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and passed through the intersection as the traffic light had already turned red.

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