BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) _ The family of a New Jersey woman who was run over and killed outside a concert in upstate New York last summer is suing for wrongful death.
Thirty-three-year-old Grania Maggio of Lake Como, N.J. was killed last July following a Dave Matthews Band concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Maggio was walking with her friends back to their car when she was hit so hard that the impact tossed her into nearby brush.
She was killed instantly.
Earlier this week Maggio’s parents filed a lawsuit against the car’s driver, 31-year-old Alexander Bennett, and his father, Bruce Bennett.
The younger Bennett was drunk at the time of the accident, and police also found cocaine and marijuana in his system. The Maggios’ suit alleges that the elder Bennett shouldn’t have allowed his son to drive his pickup truck.
The younger Bennett pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, leaving the scene of a fatal crash and first-degree vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced in March to 3{ to 10{ years in state prison.
The suit also names the owners of the three Saratoga bars that Bennett was allegedly drinking in prior to Maggio’s death as defendants.