The family of a New Jersey high school cheerleader who was critically injured during a hit-and-run earlier this year is suing the Newark school board for negligence — as the wheelchair-bound victim still struggles to recover from the traumatic event.
Chiara Jones, 19, a senior at Arts High School, had just stepped off the bus after a Feb. 4 cheerleading competition in South Jersey when a maniac driver slammed into her on Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to the lawsuit.
She was hospitalized and in critical condition for weeks, unable to speak or walk because of a traumatic brain injury, according to People.
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Months later, she’s still struggling to recover from injuries that her family’s attorney, James Lynch, said are “severe and permanent.”