Road traffic accident compensation is due to be received by a 30-year-old man who suffered traumatic personal injury when he was hit by a lorry after getting out of his car in 2007.
The property worker, from South Yorkshire, was dragged beneath the 44-tonne heavy goods vehicle and caught up in its rear axle.
The court hearing the road traffic accident compensation case was told how the man's right leg was "traumatically amputated", while his left leg was so badly injured that it later required surgical amputation.
And, although it was found that the accident was, in some sense, attributable to the claimant's decision to retrieve his mobile telephone from the passenger side door, it would be "a counsel of perfection and would not accord with the realities of ordinary everyday life" to consider him to be in anyway contributory negligent.
The judge said that he therefore found the lorry driver to be "wholly liable for the accident and the resultant injuries, loss and damage suffered..."
*A replacement vehicle can usually be supplied within 4-6 working hours, where there is an admission of liability from the other person’s insurance company. If this person is not known, their insurance details are not known, they are uninsured or there is a potential dispute over who caused the accident, a replacement vehicle cannot be provided.
