> 'I should've never been disabled': Tampa man could get relief 18 years after school bus crash
'I should've never been disabled': Tampa man could get relief 18 years after school bus crash
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After years of fighting, a bill in the statehouse could pay out damages of more than a million dollars to a Tampa Bay family.
Robin and Marcus Button have been waiting a long time for justice.
"It's been really rough since all this has happened to him,” Robin said. “I never knew I had such patience until all this happened.”
It was 18 years ago that everything changed for Marcus. He was riding passenger in a car along State Route 54 when a local Pasco County school bus turned into oncoming traffic.
The school bus driver was cited for failure to yield. The Buttons sued the school district and won a judgment of one and a half million dollars, but were only paid two hundred thousand dollars because of a cap on damages against public entities.
“I have multiple traumatic brain injuries,” Marcus said. “I'm half-blind, I have nerve damage. It makes me feel like I could've had so much more and that I’ve missed out on a lot of opportunities I never got the chance for because I’m disabled. And I should've never been disabled, just like the bus driver never should have run the stop sign.”
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/tampa-man-injured-school-bus-crash-18-years/67-f46f3c11-63d1-4f32-84bb-ffaaf8c278a0
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