A mother has been awarded over millions by the Western Cape High Court for her son's lifelong disability resulting from a road accident.
The mother of a three-year-old - who was left with permanent disability and disfigurement after being knocked by a car - will receive a Road Accident Fund (RAF) payout of more than R5million.
The Western Cape High Court Judge Matthew Francis ordered that the RAF pay the mother R5,220,425 (five million two hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and twenty-five rand).
The award includes compensation for 100% of the costs of the future accommodation of the boy in a hospital or nursing home, treatment, rendering of services, or supplying of goods to him arising from the collision of June 9, 2013.
Significantly, while the court found that the agreed expert classification of the boy’s injuries was ‘mild’ at the time of the accident, Judge Francis said the permanent cognitive, behavioural and developmental consequences in a child injured before he had begun school are substantial and lifelong.
