Donna Antczak v. Fred Lathrop, et al.: A woman who was severely injured in a crash in Waterford after a town van allegedly ran a stop sign has recovered $2.5 million in a settlement.

Donna Antczak, 62, of Waterford, was on her way to BJ’s Wholesale Club at about 10:55 a.m. on November 16, 2010. According to her lawyer, Joseph Barnes, of The Reardon Law Firm in New London, as Antczak approached the intersection of Waterford Parkway North and Cross Road, she was broadsided on the left side of her vehicle by a van owned by the Town of Waterford and driven by Fred Lathrop.