An Essex County jury awarded nearly $3.6 million on Tuesday to a driver injured when the roof of his Nissan Altima failed to withstand the impact of a flying tire that came loose from a truck. Another $500,000, paid in a settlement with the truck driver, brings the total recovery in Clanton v. Nissan North America to $4 million.
On July 17, 2006, Larry Clanton, then 45, was headed south on the Garden State Parkway when a 73-pound tire and tire assembly flew off a northbound truck and hit his roof header, says his lawyer, Cynthia Walters of Budd Larner in Short Hills.
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