{"id":122151,"date":"2008-04-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aff2449f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2008-04-25T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:00:00","slug":"aff244b2-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/aff244b2-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor operator in head-on collision sues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Public Works heavy equipment operator has sued a motorist for the injuries he sustained as a result of a head-on collision between a tractor and a car.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Ramos Deleon Guerrero sued Joshua Charles Gibson for negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero, through counsel Victorino DLG. Torres, asked the Superior Court to order Gibson to pay him damages, attorney\u2019s fees, and court costs.<\/p>\n<p>Torres stated in the complaint that on July 20, 2006, Deleon Guerrero was operating a tractor to mow the shoulder of Highway 16 in Papago as part of his duties for DPW.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff saw a white car, which was driven by Gibson, traveling south toward him.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said his client stopped the tractor to prevent rocks and other debris from flying into the oncoming vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer said that Gibson suddenly and unexpectedly swerved off his lane, causing a head-on collision with the tractor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon collision, Mr. Deleon Guerrero was immediately ejected from his seat on the tractor, violently hurled into mid-air and brutally landed on the asphalt road where Mr. Deleon Guerrero sustained serious  personal injuries,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that, because of Gibson\u2019s reckless, careless and negligent failure to drive in a reasonable manner, defendant collided into plaintiff\u2019s tractor \u201ccausing severe personal injuries to Mr. Deleon Guerrero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Public Works heavy equipment operator has sued a motorist for the injuries he sustained as a result of a head-on collision between a tractor and a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}