Excerpt from above link (well done!) :
The incident, which occurred in late 1994, involved a freshman who pledged with Delta Phi Chi, an illegal social fraternity.
According to Pierce, the initial pledging rites Duncan participated in were relatively harmless — things such as drinking hot beer or whiskey.
However, things got out of hand as the plaintiff was approached one day and told to report to the Corner House, a local hang-out of the fraternity, for “Hell Night.†Once there, he was blindfolded, put into a car and driven out to a soccer field around midnight. Fraternity members proceeded to throw the plaintiff into mud, poured beer on him and urinated on him. In addition, he was forced to drink alcohol and other unknown substances, Pierce said.
Afterwards, as Duncan believed the hazing was ending, Pierce said he was placed in the back of a vehicle and thrown around inside as the driver did “doughnuts†in the field.
Duncan was then put into the back of a pick-up truck to return to campus. Pierce said the driver used a shortcut on a rough secondary road, first driving calmly and then from side to side on the road until he lost control and hit a tree. The plaintiff was buffeted about and slammed into the side of the truck bed.
The plaintiff suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured spine, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and loss of erectile function due to urological injuries.
