A BART train at the Pleasant Hill station in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
A San Francisco man who was caught in the doors of a BART train and severely injured as the train sped off has received a $9.15 million settlement, the largest legal claim in the transit agency’s 50-year history.
A lawsuit behind the grisly incident in February 2021 claimed that the train’s conductor disregarded an alert that David Nelson was trapped in the door and drove off anyway.
Nelson, who was 58 at the time, tried to disembark a BART train at