Car accident compensation news
21/05/2007
Boy learns there is no joy in joyriding
A teenager from Middlesbrough in the UK has been ordered to pay £3,000 in car accident compensation after he got drunk and took two friends joyriding. In addition, he was ordered to do 110 hours of unpaid community work.
The car accident compensation relates to an incident in February in which the 19-year-old boy 'decided to show-off big time to his mates'. On the evening in question he drove to each of his two friends houses asking them to come with him in his Peugeot saying, "I'm going to show you some deadly moves."
Fortunately the 'moves' did not prove to be too 'deadly', though one of his friends, a 16-year-old boy, did sustain a whiplash injury in a collision with an unoccupied Toyota in an industrial estate car park. A portion of the £3,000 car accident compensation order will go to the 16-year-old as whiplash compensation.
Outside the court, the grandfather of the 16-year-old boy said, "He was terrified, shaking when he got home. We couldn't get a word out of him. I hope that lad [the driver] has learnt his lesson. He got off lightly. If we'd wanted we could've got a no win no fee solicitor involved."
The boy was ordered to pay the car accident compensation in monthly instalments of £200.
