A woman whose right leg was amputated after an accident with a New Jersey Transit bus has agreed to a $10 million settlement of her Essex County, New Jersey, personal injury suit.

Xuefang Zhong had just disembarked from the bus in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York after riding from New Jersey on Oct. 30, 2019, when she opened the door to the luggage compartment under the bus and reached in to retrieve her bag, according to plaintiffs lawyer David Mazie, of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman in Roseland. The door to the luggage compartment was still open and Zhong was partly inside the compartment when bus driver Eric Bischoff drove away from the bus stop, running over and crushing Zhong, Mazie said. Bischoff kept driving until he was flagged down by a witness, Mazie said.

David Mazie of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman/ photo by Carmen Natale/ALM