STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A former city Sanitation worker from Staten Island who was injured in a crash five years ago has settled for $1.1 million.
The incident unfolded around 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 9 on Johnson Avenue, near Stenart Avenue, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
The plaintiff — 48-year-old Robert Jantz of Rosebank — was operating a 2015 Nissan on Johnson Avenue when the defendant — 43-year-old Matthew Santo of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. — blew through a stop sign in an 2011 Audi and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle, a lawsuit alleged.
A civil complaint on the matter alleging “negligence” and “recklessness” on the part of Santo was filed in June 2019 by Staten Island-based law firm Chelli & Bush, in state Supreme Court, St. George.
The plaintiff was transported to a hospital in Brooklyn, then later that day treated at the emergency room at Staten Island University Hospital, noted attorney Michael Bush in the complaint. Right shoulder surgery and a spinal fusion followed in May 2019 and May 2020, respectively, medical records confirmed.
Since the time of the crash, the plaintiff has been unable to work, while racking up more than $60,000 in medical bills, the complaint alleged.
The settlement was paid by GEICO.
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