STARKVILLE — Jacorey Williams was asleep in the front seat of his grandmother’s car the afternoon of June 14, 2006, when he awoke with a start.
A 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by 18-year-old Timothy Nootbaar, of Starkville, had just crossed the median of Highway 82 near the Oktibbeha-Lowndes County line, flipped and collided head-on with the 2005 Nissan Altima driven by his grandmother, Bonita Jordan.
“I heard yelling, and I woke up and saw glass and blood,” Williams, now 16, said Wednesday from the witness stand in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.
Nootbaar died as a result of the accident while Jordan, Jacorey Williams and his sister, Brittany Williams, who was in the back seat, were seriously injured and have since incurred “substantial” expenses for hospital visits, doctor appointments, drugs and other medical needs, according to a lawsuit the family filed in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court against Nootbaar’s estate and Hayes Hunt Logging Inc., of Sturgis. Nootbaar was working for Hayes Hunt Logging at the time of the accident.
The family, which has been in court all week and testified individually on Wednesday, filed for damages on account of personal injuries and other damages “sustained as a result of the negligence of the defendants, Hayes Hunt Logging and the Estate of Timothy B. Nootbaar,” the lawsuit alleges.
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