An Illinois man paid 600,000 quarters towards his $500,000 insurance settlement for passengers who survived a car crash that killed his teenage son.

Roger Herrin, a retired foot surgeon, said the $150,000 in change was a "protest against the ruling," according to a Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal article.

The payback reportedly weighed 4-tons.

"It's vehemently wrong in my view and nearly everybody else in the world," Herrin, of Harrisburg, Illinois told the Wall Street Journal. "If and when someone loses a child, it leaves a hole in your heart that is never repairable."

Herrin's fifteen-year-old-son, Michael, died in June 2001 when a farm truck reportedly ran a stop sign in southern Illinois and hit the Jeep Cherokee he was in. The crash injured two friends and the driver, the mother of one of the friends.

Herrin and his family reportedly received $1.65 million in a settlement of a wrongful- death lawsuit with two insurance companies that represented the driver of the truck. A trail court also reportedly awarded the family $500,00 of $800,000 for underinsured motorists for all the passengers.

However, in January 2012, it was ruled by the state 5th District Appellate Court that the trial court made an error giving the Herrin's the additional money and ordered that it be redistributed to the injured passengers by July 31, 2013.

An armored truck reportedly drove the quarters from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to a bank in Marion, Illinois. The change was then reportedly transferred to flat bed trucks who took the money to the law two law firms representing the injured passengers. The bags of quarters were dropped in their lobbies.

The Journal reported one attorney, Mark Prince, said, "If he wants to pay in quarters, that's his business."