BULLS
PLAYER, BROTHER, NAMED IN SUIT
(As reported in Pioneer Press - Deerfield Review)
By Ruth
Solomon
Staff Writer
March 8, 2001
A
Highland Park woman injured in a four-vehicle accident in
Deerfield on Feb. 19 filed a lawsuit Friday in Cook County
Circuit Court against Chicago Bulls player Ron Artest, and
his brother, Daniel, charging Ron with negligence for letting
his brother drive a car without a valid driver’s license.
Daniel,
18, was exiting the Deerfield High School parking lot on
Feb. 19 at 3:30 in the afternoon, when the car he was driving
collided with a second vehicle driven by a 44-year-old Lake
Forest man, then continued on to a head-on collision with
a van driven by Susan Romanchek, 40, of Highland Park. A
fourth car, driven by a 22-year-old Vernon Hills man, then
collided with the van, according to the accident report.
Romanchek
and Daniel Artest were injured in the accident. Romanchek
was treated at Highland Park Hospital and released the next
day, according to her attorney, Timothy Cavanagh, of Lloyd
& Cavanagh. Artest was treated and released the same
day, according to a spokeswoman from Evanston Northwestern
Healthcare.
Two
of Romanchek’s children, a three-year-old and a five-year-old,
were riding in the back of the van and were not hurt in
the accident, Romanchek said.
A
15-year-old passenger in Artest’s car was also not hurt,
according to the accident report.
The
suit, filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court, charged
that Ron Artest, who was not involved in the accident, “owned
and or was the named lessee” of the Mitsubishi Montero driven
by his brother and knew his brother did not have a valid
Illinois driver’s license.
