A couple injured in a collision with a commuter bus on the New Jersey Turnpike settled their Essex County suit, Ibanez v. Hurtado, for $2.4 million on Jan. 28.

On Aug. 22, 2017, Victor Ibanez, then 42, and Danet Ibanez, then 35, were heading southbound in the left lane of the turnpike around mile marker 107.3 in Newark in a pickup truck driven by Victor when a full-size passenger bus owned by Lakeland Bus Lines Inc. and driven by Lakeland employee Jose Hurtado crossed over two lanes of traffic from the right lane of the highway and struck the Ibanez vehicle, driving it into the median, according to Joseph LaBarbiera and Richard LaBarbiera of LaBarbiera & Martinez in North Bergen, counsel to the plaintiffs.

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