A pregnant mother who was hit by a pickup truck while pushing a stroller across a street in Toco Hills with her husband and three small children, has settled her claims for $1.5 million.

Her main injury was a broken leg with medical bills totaling about $170,000, but her lawyer said the policy-limit settlement reflected not only her difficulties in delivering a baby shortly after the accident but also those entailed by religious proscriptions forbidding her from touching her husband until she had taken a ritual bath—which she could not do with the bandages.

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