CARSON CITY – The 14 survivors of the crash involving a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 are going to receive an extra $1.3 million.
The state Board of Examiners originally granted $1.2 million to five adults and nine juveniles in the death of four people killed by Trooper Joshua Corcran in Clark County in February 2006.
But U.S. District Judge Robert Jones has ruled the $1.2 million was not enough and more money should be allocated by the state to the children.
Stan Miller, the claim manager in the state Attorney General’s Office, told the board Tuesday he didn’t know whether the extra $1.3 million will be approved by Jones for the children who were survivors of three families.
But it brings the total payment to $2.5 million.
Corcran was driving his patrol car at 113 mph on Interstate 15 without flashing lights or sirens when he rammed into the car, killing four of its five occupants near Sloan.
Those dead were Victor De La Cruz-De Leon, 21, Reymunda Lopez-Vazquez, 21; Lopez-Vazquez’s step uncle Jose Sanchez Lopez, 42 and Jose Roberto Mejia Lang, a 19-year-old family friend.
Corcran, 30, was sentenced to two to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony reckless driving charge.
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