Fraternity Settles Yale Tailgating Death Suit

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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"A Yale University fraternity and more than 80 of its members have settled lawsuits over a fatal rental truck accident outside the popular Yale-Harvard football game in 2011, bringing an end to all litigation in the case, a lawyer said Friday.

A U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs heading to the Sigma Phi Epsilon tailgating area outside the Yale Bowl fatally struck 30-year-old Nancy Barry, of Salem, Massachusetts, and injured two other women." …

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-yale-tailgate-accident-20160108-story.html

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I’m glad they were able to reach a settlement. I think it’s important to remember that this accident didn’t happen because the driver was drunk, but (most likely) because he didn’t really know how to drive a truck. I’m also glad Yale changed its rules about trucks at tailgates, because there are just too many pedestrians everywhere.