A woman who underwent spinal fusion surgery after the car she was riding in was rear-ended was paid a $1.3 million settlement in her Essex County personal injury suit, Villegas v. Salson Logistics Inc., on July 16.

Ana Villegas of Lyndhurst was riding in the back seat of a car that was stopped at a red light on Route 139 in Jersey City on Oct. 31, 2015, when they were rear-ended by a truck driven by Calvin Dunstan and owned by Salson Logistics.