Fulton County delivered a post-apportioned award of $18.7 million to an elderly woman left permanently brain-damaged after falling as she attempted to step off a MARTA Mobility bus.

The panel awarded a total of $25 million in damages but apportioned 25 percent to the injured woman, Jaccolah Johnson, who has been in a vegetative state since the fall nearly three years ago, according to plaintiffs attorney Michael Goldberg. The mobility bus is one of the smaller MARTA vehicles used to serve disabled individuals who are unable to use its regularly scheduled buses.