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Relatives of a Ugandan tourist are demanding more than $ 80 billion in damages from the US National Park Board because a 25-year-old woman sitting in her car was beheaded by an unsecured and misaligned piece of iron in a Utah’s Arches National Park gate.
Esther Nakajjigo, a women’s rights activist revered as an icon in her homeland but also known internationally, and her husband of French descent visited the national park famous for its natural stone bridges on June 13, when the tragic event occurred. accident, to celebrate the first anniversary of their friendship. Her husband, 26-year-old Ludovic Michaud, claims $ 240 million and the parents $ 30 million in compensation from the Utah National Park and the federal organization that oversees the national parks for their negligence.
With a locking mechanism of only $ 8, our world has lost forever an extraordinary warrior, an influential young woman who was destined to be a future Princess Diana, the philanthropist Melinda Gates or Oprah Winfrey. – read in action for damages.
Esther Nakajjigo, a figure recognized in Uganda at a young age, has been actively involved in various philanthropic initiatives, mainly in the fields of schooling girls, fighting early pregnancy and creating a community center for young mothers at the 17 years old. She also launched a reality TV show to awaken the self-awareness of girls and young women.
The young activist has been recognized with an award for women’s rights by, among others, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) and the Ugandan Ambassador for Girls and Women in her country.
We just don’t want that to happen again declared Ludovic Michaud, who was lucky to have survived the freak accident. With the compensation money, the widow wants to ensure that the humanitarian projects launched by Nakajjigo survive the death of his wife.
According to the lawsuit, the metal rod that came loose in high winds sliced through the side of the car “like a hot knife in butter.” The family’s attorneys said the National Park Service had been using iron pipes in the gates for years that had a “point as sharp as a spear,” and he knew that if they were not properly secured, they could hit the road in front of cars.
Employees knew or should have known that strong stone-carving winds were also capable of blowing an unsecured metal door in the path of an entering car. – argues the lawsuit for damages of Deborah Chang, a lawyer representing the widow and the family, who threatens to take legal action in the event that an agreement is not reached.
According to the lawyer, the federal government should have been aware of the danger posed by unsecured and misaligned doors, as a man riding on the bed of a pickup truck in a 1980 accident, for example, was slammed through the door. .
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