A beverage distributor agreed on Tuesday to pay $7.9 million to settle a motorist’s claim that he suffered brain damage in a crash with an overloaded beverage truck that went through a red light.

On Feb. 11, 2006, Daniel Chernesky, then 40, of Newton was heading north on Route 94 in Lafayette on his way to a recycling center when he was struck at the intersection of Route 623, according to the Middlesex County suit, Chernesky v. Van Orden.

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