Man Sues Indiana, Road Contractors After Wife Killed When Car Drove Off Cline Avenue Bridge
(CBS) -- A Chicago man is suing the state of Indiana and its road building contractors blaming them for a fiery accident on the Cline Avenue Bridge that killed his wife 14 months ago.
It was March of last year when Iftikhar Hussain and his wife were driving from Chicago to West Lafayette, Indiana.
Hussain's attorney Timothy Schafer says the couple took the Indiana Toll Road and then the Cline Avenue exit, following the GPS in their Nissan Sentra.
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Schafer says even though the road was closed because the bridge ahead was demolished, the barricades had been removed and the couple drove on and then off the end.
"He couldn't get her out of the car," Schafer said. "That's how he burned his hands, arms and head - trying to get his wife out of the car, but the doors were jammed from having dropped 40 feet to the ground. He broke out his window but he couldn't get her out."
She was killed and he was seriously hurt.
Attorney Schafer says they will likely ask for damages of at least $30 million.
A spokesman for the Indiana Department of Transportation says in an email: "We are aware of the complaint and are reviewing it at this time. INDOT does not generally comment on pending litigation so we do not have anything to say at this time."
