‘Broken wrist’ in bid to stop mother’s wheelchair

A woman who brought her 83-year old mother on a day out to world-famous Powerscourt Gardens claimed before the High Court she fractured her wrist when her mother’s wheelchair went out of control on a steep slope.

Jean Chambers who has sued for damages said she tried to stop the wheelchair but it gathered speed and she fell over as she tried to stop it.

“At that stage I was running so fast. I was trying to slow the wheelchair down and to steer it towards the grass embankment. I can’t remember after that,” she told Mr Justice Anthony Barr.