RICHMOND — Henrico County’s board of supervisors has approved a settlement in a lawsuit filed after a police officer crashed his vehicle in 2022, significantly injuring a detainee.

In the wreck, a Henrico police SUV collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Chamberlayne and Wilkinson roads in the county’s north side. Officer Trey Marshall Sutton , who was driving the SUV, died from his injuries. The other two people in his car, another officer and a man Henrico police previously arrested, were injured.

The man arrested, Damian Cousins, suffered permanent injuries, his lawyer said, leading Cousins’ father to file a $50 million motor vehicle lawsuit, claiming Sutton and the driver of the pickup were responsible for the injuries.

The driver of the pickup truck, Jeffrey Adam Lan

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