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Nassau County, FL: (Jan-29-08) Merryl Kihl, a Commack woman, brought a personal injury lawsuit against Nassau County, after she was badly injured when her car slid into a tree on a treacherous stretch of county road in Bethpage in 1995. The suit claimed that the 37-year-old woman, who lived in Plainview, met with the accident on Quaker Meeting House Road at Puritan Lane in the early hours of Jan. 13, 1995. That short stretch had been the scene of numerous bad crashes, and a Garden City chiropractor, Mary Ellen Zawicki, 38, was killed the next day, Jan. 14, when her car hit the same tree.

Sources stated that Kihl suffered a broken neck and other injuries in the crash, and operations to ease her pain caused complications. She has had spinal fusion surgery, undergoes pain management treatments, and has to take a combination of narcotics, analgesics, and muscle relaxants. She also has a morphine pump implanted in her stomach, which must be replaced every four or five years for as long as she lives. As part of a settlement reached, the Nassau County Legislature voted unanimously to authorize the payment of $13 million to Merryl Kihl, resolving the lawsuit. [NEWSDAY: CAR CRASH SETTLEMENT]

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