A jury found that the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office was not liable for an automobile accident involving one of its deputies.

On Jan. 15, 2015, plaintiff Ivet Morgan, an unemployed woman in her 40s, was struck by a sheriff’s department’s vehicle, a sport utility vehicle. The incident occurred on Park Avenue West, near an intersection at San Marco Circle, in the town of Lake Park. Morgan suffered injuries of her bladder, her pelvis, a rib and her sacrum.