Court awards pillion $6.5m for injuries after crash

A pillion passenger left permanently impaired after a motorcycle collided with a truck transporting an excavator along the Bog Walk main road in St Catherine 12 years ago has been awarded approximately $6.5 million in damages by the Supreme Court. Justice Sonya Wint-Blair, in her judgment last month, ordered $5,900,000 in general damages with interest at three per cent per annum from September 29, 2017, and $565,568 for special damages covering travel and medical expenses with three per cent interest from December 22, 2014, until the date of judgment.