Car accident claim news
09/08/2011

Biker blames schoolgirls for road traffic accident

Two schoolgirls are being sued for road traffic accident compensation following a collision which left a motorcyclist with serious personal injuries.

A High Court writ stated that the two 15-year-old schoolgirls had just got off their school bus in Hackbridge, Greater London, on their way home. However, instead of using the nearby pedestrian crossing to get across the road, the girls attempted to weave through the slow moving traffic.

Meanwhile a 60-year-old man was riding his motorbike and had just come round the bend when he saw the girls in the middle of the road.

As he was driving within the speed limit he had time to brake and successfully swerve out of the way, but in doing so he was flung off his bike and into the path of a Ford Transit van.

The collision with the van caused the biker to suffer severe personal injuries which have left him paralysed and quadriplegic. He now requires round the clock care and will never live independently again.

Within the writ the man accuses the two girls of failing to cross the road safely, and states that he is seeking more than £300,000 in road traffic accident compensation for the life changing injuries he has sustained.