The family of a Minnesota woman who was paralyzed when a driver hit her during a triathlon last Sunday in Palm Beach County has hired a nationally known law firm to investigate the incident.
Ashleigh Whitton, 45, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was hurt while competing in the bicycle portion of the Bill Bone Olympic Triathlon when investigators said a 74-year-old driver turned onto the closed course, striking Whitton and another cyclist.
Whitton is now out of a coma but remains paralyzed from the neck down and is still hospitalized…