A husband and a wife will split a $900,000 settlement to be paid by a trucking company as a result of an accident on Interstate 95.

On Aug. 16, 2013, Stephen Bowles was driving on I-95 in New Haven when he slowed his SUV due to heavy summer traffic. A tractor-trailer owned by M&G Trucking and driven by its employee, Jose Moreira, of Rhode Island, plowed into the back of the SUV, pushing it into the car ahead of it. The SUV was totaled, Stephen Bowles lost consciousness, and his wife, Diane, who was a passenger, suffered serious chest injuries.

According to the plaintiffs' lawyer, Kelly Reardon, of the Reardon Law Firm, the truck driver claimed to the police that his load had suddenly and unexpectedly shifted, that he could not stop his truck in time and that the accident was not his fault.