Nebraska Watchdog has learned the State of Nebraska is ready to pay up and pay up big following a brutal accident that has raised one key question: what did the Nebraska Department of Roads know and when did it know it?

First the pay out: A  judge in Cass County, Nebraska has approved a $1.5 million settlement between the State of Nebraska and 52-year-old Tom Wolfe of Ashland, Nebraska. Wolfe’s attorney tells Nebraska Watchdog that because the settlement is over $50,000 it must still be approved by the Nebraska Legislature.

According to interviews and accident reports in October, 2007 Wolfe was driving along Interstate 80 near his home when a five pound piece of metal and concrete smashed through his windshield and then through his head. Wolfe says it almost killed him, “It was touch and go for a while there.” After two major operations, one that left a plate in his head along with 30 stitches, Wolfe is out of work and believes his life will never be the same.

In 2008 he talked about his accident in an interview with KMTV.

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