{"id":7057,"date":"2011-05-26T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:23:41","slug":"family-sues-chicago-worker-over-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"Family Sues Chicago Worker Over Sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The parents of a toddler and her nanny, injured Saturday when a truck crashed into pedestrians on a Gold Coast sidewalk, have filed suit against the city of Chicago and the city worker driving the truck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Jones<\/strong>, 20 months old, was being pushed in a stroller by her nanny, <strong>Jennifer Anton<\/strong>, 25, when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anton<\/strong> suffered severe fractures to her pelvis, hips and legs, and her condition remains serious.<strong> Tyler<\/strong> was released from Children&#8217;s Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Witness accounts indicate that <strong>Jen Anton<\/strong> was a true hero,&#8221; <strong>Thomas A. Demetrio<\/strong> said. &#8220;She pushed little <strong>Tyler<\/strong> out of the path of a direct impact, and probably saved <strong>Tyler&#8217;s<\/strong> life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car, <strong>Dwight Washington<\/strong> of the 1800 block of North Linder Avenue, was ordered held Monday on $400,000 bond. <strong>Washington <\/strong>faces four counts of aggravated driving under the influence and bodily harm, and two counts of misdemeanor DUI.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old city worker also was ticketed for carrying alcohol, negligent driving and failure to reduce speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The parents of a toddler and her nanny, injured Saturday when a truck crashed into pedestrians on a Gold Coast sidewalk, have filed suit against the city of Chicago and the city worker driving the truck. Tyler Jones, 20 months old, was being pushed in a stroller by her nanny, Jennifer Anton, 25, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}