Settlement Reached After a Denny’s Sign Fell on a Car and Killed a Married Couple

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A colony has been reached successful relationship to nan deaths of Lloyd and Lillian Curtis, a Kentucky mates who died aft a Denny’s motion fell from a rod onto their car successful Elizabethtown
The hubby and woman were driving done nan Denny’s parking batch erstwhile nan calamity occurred successful January 2023
Their family revenge a suit against nan edifice chain, claiming much could person been done to forestall nan incident

A colony has been reached successful relationship to nan 2023 deaths of a hubby and woman who died aft a Denny’s motion fell connected their car.

Lloyd Curtis, 77, and his wife, Lillian Curtis, 72, were successful a sedan successful a Denny’s parking batch successful Elizabethtown, Ky., connected Jan. 19, 2023, erstwhile nan incident occurred, per WDRB, LEX 18, and The Courier-Journal.

Lillian suffered terrible caput wounds, and she died that day, and Lloyd succumbed to his injuries respective days later connected Jan. 23, per nan outlets.

Their daughter, Mary Graham, was besides successful nan conveyance and was released from a section infirmary aft being treated for thorax injuries sustained successful nan incident, according to The Courier-Journal.

Denny's successful Elizabethtown, Ky. Google Maps

At nan time, constabulary stated that precocious winds caused nan motion — which was attached to a gangly rod — to dislodge from its guidelines and autumn to nan ground, per WDRB, LEX 18, and The Courier-Journal.

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The victims' family revenge a suit successful Hardin County, claiming that Denny’s could person done much to forestall nan tragedy, per WDRB and LEX 18. The lawsuit was dismissed by Hardin County Circuit Court Judge Larry Ashlock connected Sept. 12 aft a colony was reached, according to The Courier Journal.

The colony magnitude was not disclosed successful nationalist tribunal documents.

In a connection to PEOPLE, a Denny’s spokesperson said, “Denny’s remains profoundly saddened by nan motion mishap that took spot astatine nan Elizabethtown location successful 2023. While nan position of nan caller colony are confidential, we dream this statement brings immoderate measurement of closure to nan Curtis family.”

Amy Nichols, their granddaughter, said that nan mates was driving location from a Louisville hospital, wherever her grandfather had undergone bosom surgery, erstwhile nan calamity occurred, per a GoFundMe group up successful 2023.