AN ISLINGTON PEDESTRIAN IN COLLISION WITH A CAR HA

AN ISLINGTON PEDESTRIAN IN COLLISION WITH A CAR HAS BEEN

AWARDED #75,000 DAMAGES IN AN OUT-OF-COURT SETTLEMENT FROM THE

DRIVER, WHO DENIED LIABILITY.

MR TERENCE KENNEDY WAS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE AFTER
THE ACCIDENT INVOLVING DRIVER MS GILLIAN PYRAH’S IN UPPER STREET,
ISLINGTON.

IN A HIGH COURT WRIT HE ALLEGED THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AS HE
WALKED OVER A ZEBRA CROSSING.

HE ALSO STATED IN HIS PLEADINGS TO THE COURT THAT MRS PYRAH WAS

LATER CONVICTED AT HIGHBURY CORNER MAGISTRATES COURT OF DRIVING

WITHOUT DUE CARE AND ATTENTION.

MR KENNEDY, 45, OF ETAL HOUSE, UPPER STREET, ISLINGTON, WAS OFF

WORK FOR NEARLY A YEAR AFTER SUFFERING TWO FRACTURES TO HIS LEFT ARM
AND CUTS TO HIS HEAD.

HE HAD AN OPERATION TO HIS INJURED ELBOW SEVEN MONTHS AFTER

THE ACCIDENT AND.

HE ALSO CLAIMED HE NOW SUFFERS FROM EPISODES OF DEPRESSION AND

IRRITIBILITY AND EXCESS SLEEPINESS.

ALTHOUGH HE CAN DO LIGHT WORK HE LOST A PROMOTION AS HE CAN NO

LONGER LIFT HEAVY WEIGHTS.

AS WELL AS STIFFNESS IN HIS ARM AND SHOULDER HE IS LIKELY TO
DEVELOP ARTHRITIS.

MS PYRAH, OF MILDMAY GROVE, ISLINGTON HAD DENIED LIABILITY.

IN HER RESPONSE TO THE WRIT ISSUED AGAINST HER SHE STATED MR
KENNEDY WAS NOT ON THE ZEBRA CROSSING, AND HAD COME OUT FROM BEHIND A

ROW OF STATIONARY CARS WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 19

1983.

ENDS.