Driver Who Hit Teen In Palatine School Lot Given 2-Year Jail Term

PALATINE, IL — A 23-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for running over a Palatine High School student while driving in reverse through a campus parking lot in October, the Chicago Tribune reports. Gerson M. Aguilar-Torres, of the 0-100 block of Dundee Quarter Drive, pleaded guilty to reckless driving in the incident, the report stated. Additional charges, including driving with a suspended license and violating his probation from a past driving-under-the-influence conviction, were dropped in exchange for the plea.

The accident occurred the morning of Oct. 11 while the 17-year-old girl was in the high school's one-way student drop-off area. Aguilar-Torres was speeding the wrong way in reverse through the lot in a a 2007 Audi A4, and he hit the student, who had entered a school crosswalk.

The girl injured her knee and suffered cuts, bruises and a concussion in the accident, according to the Tribune. Police said Aguilar-Torres and two other passengers in the car were not hurt.

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Aguilar-Torres' sentence was credited with 154 days for the time he has been in jail since the incident, the Tribune reports.

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Gerson M. Aguilar-Torres, 23 (Photo via Cook County Sheriff's Office)