£175,000 provisional damages for RTA victim

An elderly woman who has undergone two knee replacement operations and may lose her leg after being hit by a car ten years ago, has received £175,000 in provisional damages in an out of court settlement. The “provisional damages” settlement will entitle her to receive further compensation as her condition deteriorates and her needs increase in the future. She spent almost a month in hospital being treated for her various injuries. She sustained a head injury, fractured her hip and her left leg, and also severely damaged her left knee. Almost a year after the incident she had to have a total knee replacement, followed by a second total knee replacement after it became infected. Her lawyer said that the case had taken so long to settle because the defendants had argued that the injuries had only accelerated a pre-existing condition in her knee, rather than caused the long-term effects.