On a clear day in September 2005, Don Svec was driving a van for his employer, family-owned electrical company Berry Electric Contracting Co. He was lost on his way to a delivery in a Chicago suburb when witnesses say he zoomed through a red light and smashed into a Saturn driven by 70-year-old Dorothy Barnes.
Barnes underwent five surgeries to repair injuries to her neck and pelvis. More than a year later, Barnes still suffers from vision problems and limited mobility in her neck and has a piece of metal sticking out of her pelvis to hold it together.
