Twenty-six year old Lamar Fields was walking home at about 3 A.M. following a New Years Eve party when he was struck from behind by a car driven by a very drunk young woman in an uninsured, unregistered motor vehicle.
He was thrown into the air, his head shattering the windshield before being thrown to the ground. The woman left the scene leaving Mr. Fields to die in the road.
The next day, having no clues, the police placed a story in the newspaper asking for anyone with information to come forward. A man reported to police seeing his neighbor return home the night before acting very drunk and the next morning he noticed her car had a smashed windshield.
Later in the afternoon, he saw the woman and her boyfriend break out the entire windshield of the car with an axe and put the pieces in the trash can. The police went to the house and found blood and hair on the broken windshield matching the victims, as well as pieces of his torn jeans on the bumper.
Upon her arrest, the woman stated that she thought she had hit a low branch.
The family of Lamar Fields contacted the Haymond Law Firm. Since the woman had no insurance and Lamar was unemployed and living at home, the Haymond Law Firm legal team brought a claim against Lamar's parent's uninsured motorist policy.
After several years of litigation, a settlement was reached out of court for $250,000. The Attorneys are also pursuing a claim against the bar that served the young woman alcohol.
Witnesses report she had over 8 drinks prior to leaving the establishment.
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