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Child hit by car compensation claim

recci · 2017-10-23 10:47:03

My 11 year old son was hit by a car yesterday. He was knocked up in the air and hit the ground hard. Luckily he was not seriously injured but suffered a minor fracture to his arm and a massive lump to his head plus lots of other scrapes and bruises. He ran out onto the road from behind a car but it was at a crossing point…

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Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite

4 November 2017 at 6:17PM

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

"He ran out onto the road from behind a car but it was at a crossing point"

Not quite the same thing as "looking in the totally opposite direction to the traffic".

It wouldn't matter if he was looking at his feet, up at the sky or at his mates behind him - the main issue is that he wasn't looking out for traffic.

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