Boy hit by motorbike and brain-damaged gets €3.5m

A boy left brain-damaged after he was knocked down by a motorbike as he attempted to cross a dual carriageway five years ago has settled his High Court action for €3.5m.

David Draper, Drumheath Drive, Blanchardstown, Dublin, was 13 years old when he attempted to cross a dual carriageway after he got off a bus on the way home from school.

Mr Justice Bernard Barton was told the schoolboy, who was in his first year at secondary school, got to the centre island but was then clipped by a motorbike.