Van driver loses his €60k claim for damages

A 36-year-old van driver who told a court he still suffered neck stiffness four years after a minimal impact collision has lost a €60,000 claim for damages.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane told Darren Byrne in the Circuit Civil Court that she found the driver he sued for personal injuries to be “a more truthful witness”.

The judge said the account of the incident as related by defendant Michelle Byrne, no relation of the plaintiff, was more likely what had happened in the car park at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, Clondalkin, Co Dublin, in November 2013.