Taxi driver who had to slam on his brakes to avoid car loses €60k personal injury claim

The only thing taxi driver Bernard Gaffney hit in April 2017 was his brakes yet the incident generated five personal injury claims totalling €300,000, Judge John O’Connor heard in the Circuit Civil Court today.

Barrister Conor Kearney told the court Gaffney, of Greenfort Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin, sued a Co. Carlow couple, the owner and driver of a car he claimed had caused him to slam on his brakes injuring himself and several of his passengers.