Crash victim settles action for €11m

A 10-year old boy, who suffered catastrophic injuries and is left a quadriplegic after the car his mother was driving crashed, has settled his High Court action for damages for €11.5m.

The settlement is the largest ever approved in a personal injury case in the history of the state.

Cullen Kennedy of Corheen, Loughrea, Co Galway, suffered devastating injuries when, due to what the court heard was a “momentary lapse of concentration” by his mother, Margaret, when distracted by her son while driving him to school in June 2008, her car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided head on with another car. Ms Kennedy was uninsured at the time.