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Car accident compensation news
12/02/2008
Ambulance crash victim awarded £430,000
A 32-year-old Cornwall man who suffered severe multiple injuries in a fatal head-on collision with an ambulance has been awarded £430,000 in car accident compensation after a tribunal meeting between the man's personal injury solicitor and the defendant, an NHS trust.
Tragically, the 32-year-old lost his brother, 21, and a friend, 22, in the crash, which occurred when an off-call ambulance inexplicably veered from the opposite lane into the lane they were travelling in.
The paramedic driver, 64, says he has no recall of how he came to be in the wrong lane. However, press reports detailing how he was at the end of his second consecutive 8-hour nightshift indicate that tiredness is likely to have been a cause of the accident.
An NHS trust had earlier accepted liability for the car accident compensation claim; it was only the issue of the amount of damages that needed to be resolved at the tribunal. A spokesperson for the defendant commented, "We deeply regret the accident and we have resolved the case."
On reaching his decision to award the claimant £430,000 car accident compensation, the judge commented, "The claimant is faced with the daunting and daily challenge of enduring serious physical scars, ongoing debilitating pain and discomfort and sleep deprivation.
"This is all against the background of two tragic deaths, one his own younger brother.
"Furthermore I find him to be someone who enjoyed work before this accident but is now forced to accept he is never going to do that type of work again.
"I find this only adds to his low mood and depression. The combination of all this means it is very unlikely he will ever fully recover from this tragedy."
