A 49-year-old mum has won £6,000 in accident compensation after she was injured when her car was hit by an ambulance.
The woman from Kirkleatham near Redcar was on her way to pick her 17-year-old daughter up from work at a local museum when the accident happened. As she turned into her daughter’s workplace, a Ford Mondeo ambulance travelling at 50mph drove into her Nissan Micra. It emerged that the driver had misunderstood where she planned to go, despite the fact that she was indicating correctly.
The woman’s back was injured in the collision and she suffers from ongoing anxiety following the incident. The woman’s daughter witnessed the accident and said that she feared her mother had been killed.
The court heard that the ambulance driver, who has since retired, had been negligent in that he had made a series of “wrong assumptions” and was fully responsible for the crash. His employer was ordered to pay the injured woman £6,000 in compensation and to pay £12,500 in court costs.
The ambulance driver’s employer has said it will study the judgement carefully and implement any key recommendations made in it.