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The family of a 14-year-old boy who died from injuries sustained in a 2023 crash outside Fuller’s Car Wash in Hinsdale is questioning the timing of last week’s bankruptcy protection filing by Fuller’s.
Sean Richards was struck and killed after a teenage employee from Fuller’s Car Wash, 102 Chicago Ave., hit the accelerator instead of the brake, according to police, and drove into the side of Fontano’s Subs across the street. Richards was walking on the sidewalk there when the incident occurred.
A statement issued Friday by Bradley M. Cosgrove and Charles R. Haskins, partners at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, the firm representing the Richards family, said the family was not surprised that Fuller’s filed for bankruptcy protection Jan. 29, “just hours before its responsible parties were set to have their depositions taken in the wrongful death matter.” The Richards family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Fuller’s.
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