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Mother of Fatal Car Crash Victim Receives Large ‘Secondary Victim’ Payout - Tim Driver, Michael Lewin Solicitors

17/11/14. Widow overcomes tough criteria to successfully claim more than £230,000 explains Tim Driver of Michael Lewin Solicitors. The limitations placed on secondary victims hoping to claim compensation were put to the test earlier this year when Martha Young, a child development officer, was awarded over £230,000.00 in compensation after happening across the scene of the car accident which killed her son.

Young was walking to the gym in Scotsun, Glasgow to meet her son when she came across a badly damaged vehicle. She later learnt from police that her son, had been killed in an accident involving the car she has seen, when the speeding driver lost control of his vehicle and hit the 26 year old as he walked along the pavement...

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