Sacramento陪审团裁定市府全责 慢跑男子被枯枝砸成脑伤获赔3330万美元
Sacramento——位于加州萨克拉门托县的Sacramento市，一个陪审团近日裁定，Sacramento市政府对2020年一宗公园枯枝坠落伤人事件负全部责任，加州大学Davis分校博士生迈克尔·弗林（Michael Flynn）获判赔3330万美元。据KCRA电视台10月16日报道，法官已按陪审团的裁决作出判决。
2020年4月，弗林在Sacramento麦金利公园（McKinley Park）慢跑时，一根枯死的树枝从约26英尺（约8米）高处断落，正中他的头部。弗林说，他约三天后才在医院醒来，由于伤势严重，医生不得不切除他的部分颅骨。弗林本科毕业于麻省理工学院，事发时距完成加州大学Davis分校的博士学业仅剩约半年，原计划从事量子计算研究，这次事故使他留下创伤性脑损伤。
弗林的律师贾森·西格尔（Jason Sigel）表示，陪审团认定市政府负100%的责任，并认为那根树枝枯死的时间已经足够长，只要市府有一套合理的巡查制度，本应发现并将其移除。西格尔说，弗林今后将无法再以同样的方式从事原来的专业工作。
弗林表示，这笔赔偿能保障他今后的生活，他也希望市政府采取新的措施，加强对公共公园树木的维护。
Jury Finds Sacramento Fully Liable, Awards $33.3 Million to Jogger Injured by Falling Tree Limb
Sacramento is a city in Sacramento County, California. A jury has found the city of Sacramento fully liable for a 2020 accident in which a falling tree limb struck a jogger in McKinley Park, and a judge has awarded the man $33.3 million, KCRA reported on October 16.
Michael Flynn was running in McKinley Park in April 2020 when a dead limb fell about 26 feet and struck him on the head. Flynn said he woke up in a hospital roughly three days later; the impact was so severe that part of his skull had to be removed. An MIT graduate, Flynn was about six months from completing his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, and had planned to work in quantum computing. The accident left him with a traumatic brain injury.
His attorney, Jason Sigel, said jurors found the city 100 percent liable, concluding that the limb had been dead long enough that a reasonable inspection program would have spotted and removed it. Sigel said Flynn will never be able to work in his field the way he would have before the injury.
Flynn said the award will leave him financially stable, and that he hopes the city adopts new measures to maintain the trees in its public parks.
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图片来源：图：萨克拉门托麦金利公园。图片来源：Pena645，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。Photo: McKinley Park in Sacramento. Image: Pena645, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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