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Mother Seeks $500K from RFTA in Daughter's Death

by KREX News Room
by Cori Coffin

Story Created: Mar 10, 2013 at 6:18 PM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 10, 2013 at 10:19 PM MDT

PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. - More than a year after her death, the mother of a woman struck and killed by a bus near Aspen is seeking damages from the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.

According to the Aspen Times, attorneys for Joanne Borell, the mother of victim Joanie Kocab, is seeking nearly $500,000 for funeral and other costs, as well as non-economic damages and income lost.

Borell filed a lawsuit against the RFTA in August 2012, accusing the organization, as well as the bus's driver, of negligence the morning of January 1, 2012, when Kocab was stuck and killed while walking in a bus lane along Highway 82.

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Really said on Monday, Mar 11 at 6:15 AM

Walking in a bus lane? And its the bus' fault...if I walk on I 70 in the lane of travel is it CDOT's fault? Must be someone faults it could never be my own stupid action.

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