A lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges a Washtenaw County, Michigan, teen was “violently assaulted” by a garbage truck driver after the teen’s mother tried to drive past the vehicle, leaving the girl with a concussion.
The incident happened on March 5 while the mother, identified as Doreen Whelan, was driving her two sons, ages 17 and 4, to school in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, according to the suit.
Whelan encountered the garbage truck, owned by Duncan Disposal, “during the course of her route,” the lawsuit said. She tried to pass it without realizing the driver, whose age has yet to be disclosed, was going to reverse the rig into a roadway…