PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — The lethal Clearwater ferry boat crash is now the topic of a lawsuit.
It was filed in Pinellas County on Monday by one of many individuals aboard the PSTA ferry, which authorities say was hit from behind by a 37-foot leisure boat on April 27 round sundown.
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Michael Wyatt represents the ferry passenger, Nicole Makelele. In line with Wyatt, his shopper, a trainer in Pinellas County, was aboard the ferry along with her son and suffered a damaged femur, cuts, bruises, and emotional trauma.
“She’s going to hold this for the remainder of her life. You understand, any time she will get on a ship and doubtlessly in a car, she could also be occupied with one thing like this,” Wyatt stated.
Different passengers have additionally lawyered up, and so has the operator of the leisure boat, Jeffry Knight.
Knight has not been charged, though one of many different ferry passengers, Jose Castro, died from his accidents. His members of the family are pleading for justice.
“What sort of world is that this?” his sister stated in a latest interview. “What sort of particular person is that this?”
In a latest letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee (FWC), which continues to be investigating the crash, Kevin Hayslett, an lawyer for Knight, put blame on the ferry — questioning its lighting and suggesting these on the ferry could have been distracted by dolphins.
Wyatt, in the meantime, hopes Makelele’s lawsuit in opposition to Knight will unravel what occurred that evening.
“That’s why we filed the lawsuit. We need to take depositions. We need to discover different movies, and you already know, do a radical investigation and see what actually went on that evening,” Wyatt stated.
Nonetheless, even earlier than that course of performs out, each he and his shopper really feel Knight was negligent when he hit the ferry, and so they consider he was boating too quick for the circumstances current that evening.
“We would like accountability,” Wyatt stated. “We would like Mr. Knight to take accountability for his actions that night.”
The lawsuit requests a jury trial and greater than $50,000 in damages.
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