Paralysed woman seeks compensation over riding accident
A Sussex woman left paralysed after falling from her horse is seeking a massive accident claim payout, alleging that a teenage motorcyclist caused her horse to bolt.
The former social worker broke her back in the 2006 accident near Shoreham-by-Sea, and is now facing a lifetime in a wheelchair, London's High Court heard.
She was on a road when she fell from her horse, Tommy. The 47-year-old alleges the noise from a trail bike rider caused the accident.
She suggests that he was driving too fast and failed to operate with consideration for other road users.
According to her, he did not slow down or stop, and he should have seen her on her horse, to slow down.
As the biker was uninsured at the time of the accident, she is looking to get a compensation claim payout from the Motor Insurers Bureau, which was established in 1946 and provides compensation to the victims of negligent uninsured or untraced drivers.
However the biker disputes her allegations and his defence team say that he stopped to let the horse pass and was not driving too fast.
Updated on 24/03/2010