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UCarlton Evans, waseChattaroy, eWA, wayeqhuba imoto yakhe edlula kwisaqhwithi esikhulu somoya xa ngequbuliso wabethelwa lisebe lomthi. Esi saqhwithi somoya sawisa nemithi emininzi eyatshabalalisa amakhaya neemoto ezininzi. Isebe lomthi ladubula ngefestile yakhe laza lamlimaza kakhulu uEvans, xa waphoqeleka ukuba aphume endleleni. Okwamdanisayo kukuba, wabethelelwa esihlalweni sakhe ngenxa yesebe elalisesiswini sakhe, ukongeza, isandla sakhe sasekhohlo senzakele kakhulu kwaye kamva kwafuneka sinqunyulwe. Lo mthi wawubekwe ecaleni kwendlela kwaye kwathiwa waphula imigangatho yesithili. UJanelle Carney, weGLP Attorneys, uthi isithili bekufanele ukuba silungiselele indawo yokucoca iimitha ezili-16 phakathi kwemithi enobukhulu obungaka neendlela ezinkulu. “Injongo yale migaqo kukukhusela bonke abaqhubi bezithuthi endleleni,” utshilo uCarney, “kwaye isithili asizange senze loo nto.”

Ngenxa yokungazi nokhuseleko, uMnu. Evans ngoku kufuneka asebenzise isixhobo sokuhamba ngeenyawo kwaye ulahlekelwe ngumsebenzi wakhe njengonjineli we-BNSF Railway. UEvans noCarney bafake ityala kwiveki ephelileyo kwi Spokane INkundla ePhakamileyo yeSithili. UMnu. Evans kunye nenkosikazi yakhe, uMargaret Evans, bafuna umonakalo ongachazwanga ngenxa yokwenzakala kunye "nokulahlekelwa yinkxaso yeemvakalelo, uthando nothando, inkathalo, iinkonzo, kunye nobuqabane." Isithethi seSithili uMartha Lou Wheatley-Billeter akazange athethe nto ngetyala. Abantu abaninzi basengozini xa ukhuseleko lungakhathalelwa, imithi emininzi ikhula kufutshane kakhulu nendlela. Emva kokuba uCarney ebuze isithili ngomsebenzi wokulungisa kule ndawo, abazange banike "nabuphi na ubungqina bokuba bazama ukwenza into ethile ngale nto."

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umthombo: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/feb/27/chattaroy-man-impaled-by-tree-branch-sues-spokane-/