Family Awarded $90M

Family bestowed $90M, A Virginia family has been bestowed $90 million in a wrongful death suit, four years after their teenage female child was killed in a pedestrian car misfortune.

The jury award arises from a tragic incident in September of 2009, during which 13-year-old Ashley Davis was struck and slain by a Lincoln Continental while her classmates observed in repugnance.

After the vehicle hit Davis, it careened into another vehicle as well as a 17-year-old young man, who endured the accident. Ashley primarily endured as well, but two weeks after the occurrence, she succumbed to her wounds and past away at a local hospital.

Davis’ family was bestowed the $90M this year, a bittersweet legal victory on what would be the year she graduated. Ashley was a freshman at Crossland High School in Prince George’s County when she past away, and was slated to be a senior this year.

Local news reported that after the accident for which the family was bestowed $90M, the Davis family litigated the Prince George’s shire School Board for negligence leading to the girl’s death. John Costello, the Davis family lawyer, explained why:

“The school board was negligent … They had adopted a policy to provide for safe transport. The policy was they were going to pick up Ashley on her own edge of the road. They never did. They forced her to cross the road. She got killed crossing the road.”

Nycole Davis, Ashley’s mom, spoke of the accident that asserted her daughter’s life: “She was on her way … She was doing the right thing. She was going to school. She was a good young female. She didn’t warrant this … If she didn’t have to cross the road … she’d be graduating this year. She’d be going to prom this year.”


While the family was awarded $90M, Davis explains that the suit was, for Ashley’s family members, not about cash:

“I didn’t ask anyone to give me any money or anything like that. I just want someone held to blame for what occurred to my daughter.”