<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"A woman has filed suit against the driver who she claims rear-ended the vehicle in which she was riding&nbsp;while it was stopped at a red light.<br /><br />Mary Riester claims she was riding in a vehicle traveling south on North Belt West near its intersection&nbsp;with East Main Street on April 16, 2011, when the vehicle stopped at a red light. Suddenly, defendant&nbsp;Theodore Fields rear-ended her vehicle.<br /><br />Because of the collision, Riester endured severe and permanently disabling injuries, suffered spinal&nbsp;injuries and experienced great pain and mental anguish, according to the complaint filed Feb. 26 in St.<br />Clair County Circuit Court. She also incurred medical costs and was prevented from attending her usual&nbsp;employment, the suit states.<br /><br />Field negligently failed to keep a proper distance between his vehicle and the one in which Riester was&nbsp;riding, failed to keep a proper lookout, drove too fast and failed to reduce his speed to avoid a collision,&nbsp;the complaint says.<br /><br />In her complaint, Riester is seeking a judgment of more than $50,000, plus costs.<br /><br />Bruce R. Cook of Cook, Ysursa, Bartholomew, Brauer and Shevlin in Belleville will be representing her.<br /><br /><em>St. Clair County Circuit Court case number: 13-L-104.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://madisonrecord.com/stories/510575159-driver-accused-of-rear-ending-vehicle-at-belleville-stoplight>