As citizens we trust that our public transportation system will provide us with dependable and competent drivers. This trust was broken for one of our clients, who, because of the negligent action of a bus driver, unfortunately will never be able to fully use his right leg. On the day of tttt the accident? incident? our client, a teenage boy, stepped in front of a parked? stopped? CTA bus. The bus driver mistakenly had not engaged the safety clutch, causing the bus to roll, pinning our client between the driver’s bus and another. After spending a month in the hospital with a severe break to his right femur, our client then endured a slow process of recovery. The law team at William G. Pintas and Associates exposed the mistake of the bus driver and collected damages in the amount of $1.25 million for the boy and his family.