Damages Award After Emergency Stop
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AGREED special damages of £360, and general damages of £750, were awarded at Lincolnshire Assizes on Monday to a man who was travelling in a lorry and injured when the driver made an emergency stop. A steel block shifted forward and trapped him.
The defendants were C. P. Marshall, Ltd., Scunthorpe, and United Steel Companies, Ltd., Scunthorpe. Mr. Justice Stable said that the degree of responsibility on United Steel, in not seeing that the load was secure, was "very slight." He apportioned their share of the damages and costs as 10 per cent.
Marshall, through their driver, were solely responsible for the manner in which the lorry was driven. Mr. Justice Stable stated that he had no doubt that it was their employee's driving which created the emergency, and they would be apportioned the remaining 90 per cent.
The injured man had been away from work for six months after the accident.