A 52-year-old Munster, Ind., woman was awarded a $900,000 settlement Thursday from the City of Chicago and a trucking firm for injuries she suffered when a police officer tried to escort her across the busy Dan Ryan Expressway on June 4, 1986. Anya Stone, a freelance writer, was walking on the shoulder of the expressway about 10:30 a.m. after her car became overheated in the northbound lanes near 94th Street when Officer Andrew Jobahovic spotted her at about 87th Street, said James J. Reidy, the woman`s attorney.
Jobahovic, who was in uniform on his way to court, parked his personal car on the inside northbound shoulder, ran across the four lanes of traffic and started to escort her back to his car to find help. After they had crossed two lanes, a car stopped to avoid them but was struck in the rear by an oil tanker owned by A.D. Conner Inc. The car lurched forward and struck the couple, causing Stone to suffer multiple fractures of her right leg and Jobahovic also to suffer a broken right leg, Reidy said.
