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Government

Mar. 18, 2008

Injured Teen to Get $9 Million in Guardrail Crash

The state has agreed to pay $9 million to a teenage girl who lost both legs after crashing her car into a broken guardrail along Interstate 10 in 2006.

By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1.

      LOS ANGELES - The state has agreed to pay $9 million to a teenage girl who lost both legs after crashing her car into a broken guardrail along Interstate 10 in 2006.
      Priscilla Contreras was 16 when a jagged metal railing ripped through the driver's-side door and rendered the high school senior a double ampu...

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