The family of a woman who died four years ago after her car plunged into the Passaic River in Newark -- near the place where three women had drowned in a similar accident several months before -- will receive a $3.1 million settlement from the city.  But a dispute still remains on whether the money will be paid in a lump sum or installments to the estate of Ceneida Zapata, said Adam Slater, an attorney with Roseland-based Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman who is representing Zapata's family.

Zapata, a 52-year-old Newark resident, died in March 2005 when she lost control of her 1989 Dodge Dynasty on Raymond Boulevard, then struck and killed pedestrian David Torre, 54, of East Orange, before dropping into the river. There were no barriers along the river where the accident occurred, although recommendations for them had been made after the three women drowned five months earlier.

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