Crash forced girl to change schools

A 10-YEAR-OLD girl had to change school following a car accident because it was so close to where she and her mum had been involved in the crash.

Barrister Nathan Jones told the Circuit Civil Court that each time Charmaine Fitzgerald would pass her old school she would visualise the crash in which she thought her mother had died.

Charmaine, who is now 14, was awarded €21,000 damages for psychological and physical injuries she suffered in the accident on March 19, 2007.