Jury awards $32,100 for 2006 damages

A Whitman County jury Dec. 17 ruled Laureen Goll, former LaCrosse resident, sustained $32,100 damages after a five-day trial. The damage was sustained in a 2006 accident on Highway 26 near the Airport Road intersection just west of Colfax.

Goll filed a suit against Jennifer Clark of Richland and her mother, Diane Clark, owner of the car Jennifer Clark was driving. The jury ruled Jennifer Clark was negligent in vehicle operation and the negligence led to injury to Mrs. Goll who now resides in the Spokane Valley.

Clark in a response to the suit filing contended she lost control of the vehicle she was driving when it was hit by a wind gust.