MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Metro Transit will pay $500,000 to a skateboarder who was run over by a bus in a south Minneapolis intersection, according to his attorney. The half-million settlement is the maximum allowed on liability claims against governmental entities under state law.
Video captures moment bus strikes, runs over skateboarder
What we know:
Metro Transit has agreed to settle a negligence lawsuit with Bradley Legrid for $500,000.
The agency agreed to settle the case days after the FOX 9 Investigators obtained video that showed Legrid being run over while riding a motorized skateboard in a crosswalk at the intersection of Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue.
Legrid says he had the walk signal.
He was badly injured after he was dragged half-a-block.
"I remember feeling something

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