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Lorry load injury compensation

A former HGV driver has received just under £120,000 compensation after he suffered injuries that ended his career. He was self employed but working under contract to a plastics manufacturing company. He was delivering a load and had opened the rear doors of the lorry and some of the load fell off the back, striking him in the back and the head.

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