£3,233 Damages for Injured Driver
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DAMAGES of 0,233, for "shocking and grievous injuries," were awarded against a Sheffield• haulage concern and one of their drivers to a former driver at Sheffield Assizes, last week. The plaintiff was Joseph Parkin, Carr Forge Walk, Hackenthorpe, and he sued his former employer, F. H. Cooper and T. W. Hart, Ltd., Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, and one of their employees, Samuel Fullerton Young, driver, Hammond Street,
Sheffield. •
Mr. Commissioner Skelthorn said that Parkin and Young were hauling coal at Blidworth colliery when Parkin found a tail pin had dropped from his lorry. Young reversed his lorry in an attempt to push the sideboard back into place. He then reversed again and crushed Parkin's head between the two vehicles.
The Commissioner said that Young was doing a "quite unpardonable" thing in reversing when he knew that there was someone at the rear. The company, and Young, he said, were two-thirds responsible, and Parkin one third. Parkin was guilty of contributory negligence in not keeping a more careful eye open.
Parkin suffered the loss of his left eye, facial palsy and other injuries.