Trailer widow wins damages
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I The widow of a man who ed after becoming entangled the wheels of a trailer :cepted over £100,000 damps in the High Court last eek. Mrs Ruth Leitch, of arnley Close, Folkestone, ent will get £96,613, and a rther 210,000 will be insted for her five-year-old iughter. She sued for dam;es under the 1976 Fatal ccidents Act following the Nath of her husband, John, on ! November 1985.
Negligence was denied by )th defendents — lorry driver dward Baker of Chestnut lose, Whitfield, Kent, and ownsend Car Ferries of EnTprise House, Channel View Road, Dover, Kent.'
According to papers before the court, Leitch was supervising vehicles entering and leaving ferries at Eastern Docks, Dover, when the accident happened. Mrs Leitch claimed that an articulated lorry struck him so that he became entangled in the rear wheels of the trailer. He suffered multiple injuries and died the same day.
His widow blamed the driver and claimed that Townsend was liable for his negligence. There were several areas in dispute before agreement was reached, said her counsel, Christopher Gibson. "The question of liability remains in dispute," he added.