Passenger gets £650,000 award
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• Car passenger Timothy Harris has won .2650,000 compensation with costs for the brain damage he suffered when his wife drove into a lorry stranded across a three-lane road.
Harris, 33 from Overstone, Northampton was in the front seat of a Ford Fiesta driven by his wife Margaret, the I ugh Court in London heard on 23 January. The car struck the 10m Bedford which was attempting a three-point-turn in darkness on the A5.
Company director Darle ton Ganu denied being totally liable for the collision, alleging that Mrs Harris was partly to blame, but Old Bailey judge Mr Justice Leggatt ruled: "To drive at night along a straight stretch of the A5 at 40-45mph on a wet road surface with nothing to alert her to an unlighted lorry lying broadside was not negligent. The accident was caused wholly by the negligence of Mr Ganu."