A 450 pound white male Bengal tiger named Apollo who was accidentally escaped from Cole Bros. circus on year 2004, cost his trainer quite a lot .
As per the court papers which was filed in a Brooklyn court show that trainer Josip Marcan agreed to pay $935,000 to two drivers who were seriously injured when the 450-pound cat slipped out of his cage, into a city park and onto the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
Five people suffered minor injuries after a tiger escaped from the circus cage in Forest Park in Queens and roamed briefly in the area, causing a collision on the Jackie Robinson Parkway before being corralled by animal trainers and the police.
An off-duty New York police detective and a Queens woman will split the settlement. They both claimed to have suffered devastating back injuries in the chain-reaction car crash.
Source:gothamist
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