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A $10-million lawsuit filed in court this week alleges the city was negligent in a head-on sledding crash at a Barrhaven park more than eight years ago, leaving a boy with a serious brain injury.

Jonathin Luigi Aiello is now 21 years old, but on Dec. 26, 2007, when he was tobogganing at Stonecrest Park, he was just a few months into being a teenager.

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On that day, according the lawsuit filed by him and his family, Aiello was sledding at the city park with his sister and two cousins. The lawsuit describes his sled as a “traditional foam toboggan.”

Stonecrest Park has two manmade sledding hills, an east hill and a taller west hill, and they face each other with a shared collection point at the base. Aiello and his family were sledding on the west hill, the lawsuit says.

According to the lawsuit, Aiello went down the hill head first, not knowing that on the east hill a girl started her run sitting down, feet first, in a wooden toboggan. The girl was travelling at a higher speed and her momentum pushed her up the west hill, the lawsuit says.