A Scottish motorcyclist has been awarded around £4,000 personal injury compensation after making a car crash claim for an incident in which he collided with a taxi on a narrow country lane.
Although the rider and the woman taxi driver offered conflicting accounts of the accident, the sheriff hearing the case decided that the account offered by the motorbike rider was more credible, paving the way for the car crash claim to be paid out.
The sheriff asserted that the taxi driver "was not keeping a proper lookout" at the time of the collision, discounting her lawyer's claim that the motorcyclist was trying to conduct "insurance fraud".
The sheriff hearing the car crash claim also said that he had been convinced by the claimant's personal injury lawyer's argument that the taxi driver had "been distracted by the conversation she was having" with her passenger.
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