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Ex-TDG driver gets payout over bad weather accident
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A FORMER TDG TRUCK driver has won an i86,000 out-of-court payment after sustaining injuries while driving in bad weather.
Newcastle-based law firm Irwin Mitchell began legal action against TDG after HGV driver Brian Young, from County Durham, suffered a fractured wrist, a shattered ankle and shin, and cuts to his face during an accident in February 2008.
The lorry, carrying empty plastic bottles, hit a stone wall on the A68 and overturned. Irwin Mitchell argued the vehicle was too light and that the firm should not have sent drivers out to work that day. TDG did not admit liability.
"Young was trying to earn a de cent living when he was exposed to a risk that would have been unacceptable in any other area of work," says Rachel di Clemente, Irwin Mitchell's industrial injury expert. She continues: "Weather is a hazard that is guarded against in other industrial situations, such as employees slipping on ice, or construction workers carrying out work at height in high winds."