A 9 year old boy has won a record of £8.1 million in compensation when he suffered from severe personal injuries after he had been accidently run over by his dad, it has been revealed.
The boy, who was two and a half years old when his father accidently ran over him in March 2002 during a family day out, suffered from spine and brain injuries and now requires lifelong care.
A settlement of £2.5 million lump sum had been reached in court with additional annual payments of £220,000 after his mother, who is now remarried, had filed a personal injury claim against the dad’s car insurance firm who admitted liability.
However, Warren Collins, solicitor and national co-ordinator of the spinal chord injuries group for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said: “This is a substantial award, but it is not a lottery win.”
He said that “If this boy lives to be 50, then that equates to £18 a day – for being brain and spinal chord injured, being doubly incontinent, having no sexual function, being unable to earn a living and requiring care for the rest of his life. That’s what people have to remember.”
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