A $1.7 million settlement was reached on Oct. 13 in Essex County for a pedestrian hit by a police car while crossing Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell in October 2019.

According to the suit, Caldwell Officer Robert J. Adams was driving his patrol car when he struck a pedestrian, Shahrzad Changalvaee, who was walking in a crosswalk. The incident was captured on the patrol vehicle’s Mobile Video/Audio Recording (MVR) device. Changalvaee, who was 36 years old at the time, was rushed to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson by ambulance, said her lawyer, Brent A. Bramnick of Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold & Mangan in Scotch Plains.