A Fulton County jury awarded $1.5 million to a girl who suffered a skull fracture and other injuries when the car she was in was struck at a red light by a pickup truck whose driver was texting.

Chasity Anderson, now 15, has made what her attorney Jon Peters called a “fairly remarkable recovery” after being paralyzed for several weeks—a point the defense cited in asking the jury for only $300,000.

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