A single trafficking victim receives more than 3 million euros in compensation

May 10 , 2024 // Specialty : Liability derived from the use of motor vehicles

Published in ABC

For the first time, since the publication of the new auto scale, an individual victim of a traffic accident is compensated with an amount greater than 3,300,000 euros. The insurer of the offending driver has been ordered to pay said amount as civil liability.

For his part, the driver has been sentenced to six months in prison and special disqualification from exercising passive suffrage during the sentence and deprivation of the right to drive the motor vehicle and mopeds for a period of six months; He must also compensate the victim through the insurance company.

As explained by the MCP Abogados office, the events occurred on September 14, 2016 when the domestic worker N. P. R. was going to look for her employer's baby in a town in Madrid and was hit by a vehicle while crossing a marked pedestrian crossing. . The impact she received was such that she had extremely serious injuries all over her body and for which she was admitted to the ICU for weeks. "Fortunately, she was not carrying the baby in the stroller, as he was thrown more than 20 meters away due to the violent impact with the car," she explains.

Once these initial inconveniences were overcome, the insurer took charge of all health costs through the existing assistance agreement for these cases, providing full collaboration with the lawyer and the family of the affected person from that moment on.