San Diego

A Superior Court jury awarded $969,757 to an Ocean Beach man after finding that the San Diego Transit Corp. was partly responsible for injuries he suffered in an April, 1986, accident as he attempted to cross the street behind a city bus.

The jury ruled Wednesday in favor of Anthony Brown, 53, even though it found that he, the transit company and the motorist who hit him were equally liable for the accident. Brown is to receive two-thirds of the $1.4-million award after the jury found he was one-third responsible.

Brown was hospitalized two months and had to have part of the temporal lobe of his brain removed. He suffered a severe memory loss, does not speak clearly and cannot organize his thoughts well, said Craig Higgs, one of Brown’s attorneys.