A man is suing God’s Pit Crew for $1 million, saying he was injured while collecting donated items at the organization’s site Aug. 20, 2008.
Bobby Altice claims in his suit filed in Danville Circuit Court that he was at the God’s Pit Crew facility to receive donated items for his charity. According to court documents, a driver for God’s Pit Crew pulled Altice’s truck away from the loading dock as Altice was closing the door to the truck’s cargo area, causing him to fall and injure himself.
Altice is also suing the man claimed to be the driver, Ricky Hyler, of Danville.
Altice’s suit alleges that Hyler and God’s Pit Crew did “carelessly, negligently and recklessly operate the motor vehicle such that they failed to ensure that the loading process had been completed and failed to ensure that no one was located on the vehicle.”
The suit also claims that Altice “was caused to suffer serious and likely permanent injuries; has suffered and will in the future continue to suffer inconvenience and pain of body and mind.” Altice says in his suit that he “has been and will be in the future deprived of earnings,” unable to transact business and household duties and has incurred medical and other related expenses as a result of the incident.
His attorney, D. Adam McKelvey of Crandall & Katt in Roanoke, has requested a jury trial.
God’s Pit Crew’s counsel, Stephen G. Bass, has filed special plea of immunity and requested the case be dismissed because the organization is a nonprofit charity that was providing items to “a class of beneficiar-ies which included the plaintiff.”
Attorneys representing the parties in the case could not be reached for comment Friday.
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