These are the actual text messages about dinner that Dasantila Rook was allegedly sending to her husband Frank while she was driving. While texting and driving, Rook is said to have crossed the yellow line and collided head-on with a car driven by Kelsey Lisk. Courtesy photo.
A 32-year-old Stratford woman whose Nissan Rogue was struck head-on by a motorist who was texting her husband about what they were going to have for dinner has settled her case for $235,000.
According to a June 2017 lawsuit filed in Bridgeport Superior Court, Kelsey Lisk and her passenger, then boyfriend Andrew Keating, were traveling southbound in Coventry in July 2015 when a vehicle driven by Dasantila Rook crossed the yellow line and hit the Lisk vehicle head-on. While Lisk and Keating sustained only bumps and bruises, Lisk’s attorney said his client suffered emotionally and psychologically. In fact, attorney Jerry McEnery said Lisk suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had to undergo treatment for anxiety and panic attacks, which developed periodically when she was driving.
