£65,000 in compensation for RTA

A breakdown technician who was injured when an articulated lorry ploughed into the back of his stationary van at the side of a motorway has been awarded £65,000 in compensation. He had been answering an early morning call-out and had just finished replacing a lorry tyre on the hard shoulder of the M25 when the lorry veered off the road and into his van, throwing him through the windscreen and on to the tarmac. The incident fractured the man’s right eye socket, tearing off his eyelid. He was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he was stabilised, x-rayed and transferred to a second hospital where he underwent a five-hour operation. He was off work for eight months.