Court overturns €62.5k award for fall on speed bump

Woman admitted she had not been paying attention to where she was going and was looking to see if there might be a free table at a nearby café

Looking around at a cafe contributed to the fall, the court heard. File photo

A €62,500 award to a woman for an injury from a fall on a speed bump while crossing a road has been overturned.

The Court of Appeal said Helen Power, from Tramore, Co Waterford, had admitted she was not looking where she was going and was looking to see if there might be a free table at a nearby café when she fell on the Promenade in Tramore on July 15, 2015.