Car Accident: Jay's Story

Personal injury from automobile accidents can have long-term consequences especially when alcohol is involved.

Jay was an eighteen-year old who had just graduated from high school. In the fall, he was going to start a two-year outdoor education program at a junior college. In all respects, he was a healthy and typical young man—athletic, attractive and a life full of promise. He loved the mountains and, that summer after high school graduation, worked at a ski resort. One night, he and nine of his friends went to a private bachelor party at a local bar. Over the course of approximately two hours, the bar served more than one hundred kamikaze vodka shooters to these ten young men, an average of ten per participant.

Jay got into his friend’s car, a fellow attendee of the bachelor party. Jay’s friend proceeded to drive in an irresponsible and reckless fashion, eventually careening off the road and flipping the car within one mile of the party. While the driver walked away unscathed, Jay was flipped out of the car and rendered a paraplegic. His fight to regain control over his body and direction in life is a story filled with courage and enormous hard work.

The attorneys at the Law Offices of Stuart A. Kritzer, P.C. helped Jay obtain a substantial cash and annuitized settlement that protected Jay financially for the rest of his life. He is now able to stand and walk for short distances with braces and crutches, but prefers the more comfortable wheelchair. He lives in Alaska, is married with children, and works in the wilderness in outdoor education and recreation.