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Whiplash transporter driver sues
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A truck driver left disabled after a crash in 1997 is suing car transporter giant Axial for about £250,000 damages after whiplash injuries from the smash meant he had to give up his lucrative driving job.
Mitchell Gray, who had been employed by Axial since 1991, crashed into the back of a 401't Tesco container truck on the M27 in January 1997. He claims that the ABS braking system failed.
Axial denies liability for the accident. The trial was due to start at London's High Court last week but the case was adjourned after an hour by Judge Phillip Price QC so that new expert evidence could be heard.
Lawyers for Axial say that Gray was too near to the Tesco truck when he applied the brakes, citing tachograph evidence.
But Gray asked the judge for time to bring forward expert evidence supporting his version of events.
Judge Price adjourned the trial after observing that the evidence currently available might, on the face of it, he "fatal" to Gray's case.