An Army Ranger veteran and his son have been awarded more than $12 million from a jury after they were injured in a crash with a landscaping truck in University Place in 2023, a representative for their legal counsel said Friday.
Bradley Shepherd and his 12-year-old son were hurt on April 20, 2023, when a TruGreen lawn-care truck pulled in front of them at the intersection of 27th Street West and Grandview Drive West, according to a lawsuit filed last year against TruGreen in Pierce County Superior Court.
As Shepherd and the boy traveled east in a Ford Escape on 27th Street West, the landscaping truck headed west on the same road, the suit said. Both vehicles approached Grandview Drive West. When the Escape attempted to proceed through the intersection, the truck’s driver tried “an unsafe and dangerous left turn” onto Grandview Drive West and the vehicles collided, according to the complaint…