£1.5mn settlement for motorcycle injury

A man who was left paralysed form the waist down after being knocked from his motorcycle has received £1.5mn in an out of court settlement. The man suffered a serious spinal injury in the incident. He had been riding his motorbike through heavy traffic on the approach to a set of traffic lights. Traffic was congested and he was manoeuvring his bike between two queues of slow-moving vehicles. A car pulled out from the offside lane and moved across to the nearside lane - knocking him from his motorbike. His injuries left him wheelchair bound. Road collision experts from both sides agreed that the practice of manoeuvring between lanes of slower-moving traffic was not only permissible but a well-recognised method of negotiating slower-moving traffic. It was shown that the car driver had failed to check his mirror when pulling out.