Woman hit by car, dog blamed
A Utah woman who was hit by a pickup truck driven -- or at least put into gear -- by a police dog has been awarded a $300,000 settlement.
Mary Frances Stone, 43, was walking to her mailbox in July 2006 when she was hit by a 1990 Ford pickup truck occupied by a police dog named Ranger.
Ranger, a German shepherd, was in the bed of the idling truck but jumped into the front seat through a sliding door and somehow knocked the automatic transmission into gear, police said.
Stone, who had a broken pelvis, had asked for $580,000 but settled with the city's insurer for $300,000.
Read the AP report here.
