Girl injured by speeding driver awarded £5m

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I remember seeing a TV programme about this. The driver had already had a major crash before from speeding. Also he didn't actually pay any of that compensation money even though he's minted.

That's the entire point of insurance. He paid for the insurance, so his insurance should pay for this. His punishment was the prison sentence. The compensation is covered (just like compensation for a different car accident any one is involved in) by insurance.

Reply 21

Playa10

Original post by Classical Liberal

Insurance companies don't pay out. It is us that have to pay out, or at least the people who pay insurance to the insurance firm in question :frown:

Just like the government never pays for anything. It is always the tax payer :frown:

That is what i mean. Insurance companies are continuously ripping us of, and this guy has a heart attack when they are compelled to pay some back

Reply 22

CyclopsRock

This is why insurance is high. Not because you might smash your car, it's in case you dome a kiddy.

Reply 23

Lamps08

Original post by Pitt1988

If the family are already minted I don't think giving that much money is necessary. The guy that knocked her down should have got much longer in jail though, that's a pathetic amount of time to serve for destroying her life.

The girl's family isn't minted bro, it's the faggy driver's family. And they didn't pay a penny of the compensation. (see my youtube vid above)

Reply 24

moomin_love

Original post by DD2

That is not as high as a number as it could have been.

Also 6 months prison is quite reasonable. As the bottom of the bbc article states, the person never intended for anything along these lines to happen, and essentially he took a lottery where got with the very worst outcome possible. 6 months of prison is plenty.

It doesn't matter if he didn't INTEND to do it... he shouldn't have been doing 70 in a 30 zone, simple as that! He was basically asking for trouble!

Reply 25

Lamps08

Original post by DD2

I will read the article then :rolleyes:

. I didn't realise the car insurance covers medical expenses, ffs.

Reply 26

Pitt1988

Original post by Lamps08

The girl's family isn't minted bro, it's the faggy driver's family. And they didn't pay a penny of the compensation. (see my youtube vid above)

Oh! My bad. In which case it should be them paying the compo indeed! If I beat someone up and left them brain damaged I'd have to pay compensation, just because you are driving a car, even though you pay insurance, shouldn't mean you get off paying it. Still your own irresponsibility.

Reply 27

Snagprophet

Should've been done for attempted murder, which is what going at 70 in presumably a town is.

Reply 28

Lamps08

Original post by Pitt1988

For sure. I'm pretty sure things work alot more fairly in America regarding compensation. The only sure fire way to end up in prison for more than 6 months here, is to steal yourself a bottle of water!

Reply 29

Indo-Chinese Food

Original post by Pitt1988

I dont think you read the story properly - i read it as the family of the driver that caused the accident were millionaires, not the victim.
And he didnt run her over, he drove into their car whilst speeding in a residential area.

Whereas 5m is a lot of money - it means nothing to a family of a child that cant breathe without a ventilator. The court award these figures mainly because the cost of her lifetime care is going to be astronomicall and they have a stab at a figure for the mental anguish it will cause. of course its never going to fully compensate for someone bed ridden for a lifetime.

One thing that clearly should be done is proper jail scentences and lifetime driving bans for people that drive 70 mph in a residential street. Lots of poeple still do this

Reply 30

Pitt1988

Original post by Indo-Chinese Food

Yeah, been corrected already about my mistake! I'd agree with the amount of money in that case, if they weren't a wealthy family. Obviously the parents are going to be out of work caring, specialist equipment would be needed etc. But yeah, the jail sentence is just laughable, people probably go away for longer for less serious things, like fraud. Silly justice system here, if you can call it such a thing.

Reply 31

Aylish

Looks like he was trying to buy of that 6 year old to save him self from prison

Reply 32

Bill_Gates

Original post by Carraghersgroins

So why not hit this family where it hurts them? Seek out their businesses and boycott them;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Singh_Boparan#Harry_Ramsden.27s

Why should this arrogant idiot get to live a life of luxury?

he must be worth about atleast 250m +

it would take a few days!

Reply 33

.eXe

They should have received a lump sum payment and the driver should get at least 20-25 years. I don't agree that he should get life. Just because his daddy is rich doesn't mean he should be exempt from long prison time, that's just a failure of the justice system.

Reply 34

Millyshyn

The money isn't really going to make a difference now, other than what can be used to care for her. It's practically taken her life away so I don't think even £5m can compensate for that kind of damage..

Reply 35

.eXe

Original post by Millyshyn

Yeah it cant...nothing can compensate it. However, something has to be done. 5m isn't a big deal to people who are already wealthy so the ideal punishment should be a jail term. All this decision established is that rich people can do whatever they want to others, as long as they have the money to pay their way out of jail. Pretty dumb decision

Reply 36

DD2

Original post by moomin_love

It doesn't matter if he didn't INTEND to do it... he shouldn't have been doing 70 in a 30 zone, simple as that! He was basically asking for trouble!

Of course he shouldn't have, which is why he's been in prison for 6 months. However motive should certainly play a role, as most of the time a person drives this idiotically, nothing happens. That is entirely different to when someone intends for something like this to happen, where there is a very large likelyhood that this is the result. As the punishment should be related to how strongly we want people to act similarly, intent should certainly play a role.

Original post by Lamps08

I will read the article then :rolleyes:

. I didn't realise the car insurance covers medical expenses, ffs.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, don't really care. But just in case you're not, medical expenses are the reason people are forced to have car insurance. If the worst thing that can happen is the need to buy a new car, it may be expensive but at some point that's possible. If the worst case scenario is several hundred thousand pounds a year in medical bills (which is easily possible with required hospitalisation, etc), the other person will never be able to pay for this. Therefore in order to ensure these people are not entirely screwed over, the government ensures people can pay when such a situation results, which is why car insurance is required.

Reply 37

PrinceyJ

£5m seems a lot, but if it all goes towards the child' healthcare (and reimbursing the crashed car) then there's no problems.

I just hope the parents don't start sponging off it.

Reply 38

F1's Finest

talk about the greedy RBS bankers getting huge bonuses. I know the consequences were serious but come on, 5 million, that's way overboard. 1 million is enough.

some people die from crashes and their family don't even get half a million, even with life insurance..

Reply 39

rjmorey1

The family supply chicken and poultry meat to KFC and other take aways, they also supply to Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsburys. Still want to boycott the company? Personally I think they should make him work for what he did. Why let him have the privilage of sitting around playing playstation in prison?