A woman driver wanted $1 million after suing the parents of teen bicyclist she killed while behind the wheel in Innisfil, north of Toronto. The lawsuit earned the ire of the victim's family especially the father who said the temerity made his blood boil.
Sharlene Simon cited negligence on the part of the slain teen bicyclist Brandon Majewski, 17, as well as her two friends. And because they were "incompetent," the accident caused her "great pain and suffering," according to the court documents obtained by Toronto Sun.
Brandon Majewski father, Derek Majewski, was beside himself after hearing about the lawsuit, as he said during an interview with the Sun, "I feel like someone kicked me in the stomach -- I'm over the edge. Sometimes, it makes my blood boil."
The mother, Venetta Majewski, said that the lawsuit from the woman driver wanting $1 million shocked her.
"She killed my child and now she wants to profit from it? She says she is in pain?" she told the Sun. "Tell her to look inside my head and she will see pain, she will see panic, she will see nightmares."
When asked to comment on the woman driver wanting $1 million, the victim's legal counsel, Brian Cameron, said that suing the slain teen bicyclist even when the woman was clearly at fault is unprecedented.
The attorney, who is representing the victim's family in seeking $900,000 from Sharlene Simon, called the lawsuit "beyond the pale."
According to police records, the slain teen bicyclist and his two 16-year-old friends were driving along the road in Innisfil (located 55 miles north of Toronto), when they were hit by Sharlene Simon's Kia Sorento.
The woman driver, who escaped criminal charges, claimed that she was traveling at 55 miles an hour, which was supposedly five miles above the speed limit, according to the Ottawa Citizen.
One of Brandon Majewski's two friends was seriously injured while the other one was not hurt, the Citizen reported.