The city of Wichita plans to pay nearly $500,000 to settle a lawsuit after a police car rear-ended a motorized scooter carrying two people in November 2024.
The city’s law department will ask the Wichita City Council on Tuesday to approve a $498,340 settlement with Joseph Oliver and Patricia Carrion. The item is on the consent agenda, meaning it is scheduled to be approved without debate or discussion along with several other routine items.
Oliver filed a lawsuit against the city in April claiming Officer Taylor Reichard “negligently and wantonly rear-ended” his Piaggio gasoline powered scooter near 21st and Grove — “sending the scooter, (Oliver), and his passenger (Carrion) crashing down onto the roadway,” the filing says…