£150,000 settlement for RTA back injury

A nursery assistant who was forced to give up her job after injuring her back in a high-speed road collision has received £150,000 in an out of court settlement. She was a rear-seat passenger in a car which collided with a tree after hitting a pothole and spinning out of control. She suffered a broken rib as well as a “burst fracture” to one of her vertebrae, from which a fragment had entered her spinal canal. When she eventually returned to work after almost 18 months absence on sick leave, she found that her old job was simply too physically demanding on her back.