$5-Million Settlement OKd in Fatal Crash
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a Long Beach man whose wife was killed when their car was rear-ended by a city maintenance truck.
Michael Zitz-Evancih suffered brain damage in the January 1995 accident on the transition road between the westbound Simi Valley Freeway and the southbound Golden State Freeway near Pacoima.
Zitz-Evancih was driving in the second lane of the transition road when the five-ton Department of Street Maintenance truck hit the back of his car, killing his wife, Joyce.
The driver of the truck was uninjured.
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