Milton Guin IIIThe husband of a woman killed in a collision last year has filed a lawsuit seeking $3.4 million from the driver, who faces charges of drunken driving and texting while driving.
Ernest Pippin II filed the suit in Hamilton County Circuit Court last week. In the lawsuit, Pippin seeks $1.5 million for his wife Vickie’s death, $150,000 for injuries to the couple’s daughter and $50,000 for injuries to the couple’s son, both minors.
Pippin requested the same amounts in punitive damages, bringing the lawsuit total to $3.4 million.
He names the accused driver, 23-year-old Milton Guin III, and Guin’s father, 58-year-old Milton E. Guin Jr., in the lawsuit.
On Sept. 23, 2011, about 9:10 p.m., Vickie Pippin was driving a 1995 Nissan Quest minivan north on Hixson Pike with her two children riding along. The younger Guin, driving a 2000 Mercury Sable owned by his father, was driving east on Crabtree Road and crossed the southbound lanes of Hixson Pike, entered the northbound lane and collided with the minivan, according to court documents.