€15m settlement for daughter horrifically injured in crash involving car driven by father

Her father was found to be just over three times the legal drink-driving limit after he had drunk heavily on the day before the accident and alcohol was still in his bloodstream

Mr Kazinski received a four-year suspended sentence from the Circuit Court and was ordered to do 240 hours of community service. He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years. The Court of Appeal later reduced the disqualification to three years. File photo

A 22-year-old woman who as a child suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was in a car driven by her father which crashed has settled her High Court action for €15 million.

Monika Kazinska was only 12 years of age and in the front passenger seat after dropping her friend off from a sleepover when the accident happened just two kilometres from her home in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, two days before Christmas 2011.