Beautician who injured her buttocks in go-kart accident loses €60k claim

A beautician who injured her buttocks and tailbone when she was torpedoed from a go-kart during a fun race has lost a €60,000 personal injuries claim against Kylemore Karting.

Alicia Mikielewska, aged 26, a Polish national who has lived in Ireland since she was 18 and who owns her own beauty salon in Portlaoise, told Judge Terence O’Sullivan in the Circuit Civil Court she was flung out of the kart when it collided with a barrier. Friends thought she was dead.

Ms Mikielewska, of Mell St, Kilminchy, Portlaoise, and formerly of Bluebell Way, Esker Hills, Portlaoise, and Maple Lawns, Oldtown Demesne, Sallins Rd, Naas, Co Kildare, said her helmet had gone one way, a shoe another as she was catapulted onto the Kylemore Karting track at the Kylemore Industrial Estate, Killeen Rd, Dublin.