Four lose €240k damages claim after judge finds car crash was staged

Judge Cormac Quinn awarded legal costs totalling almost €80,000 against the claimants

The court heard that the driver and three passengers in the rear-ended car had claimed €60,000 each in damages for personal injuries. File photo: iStock

Four east European nationals who claimed €240,000 damages for personal injuries arising out of a car crash in Dublin, have been told by a judge he was satisfied the collision had been staged.

Judge Cormac Quinn, in dismissing all of the cases and awarding legal costs totalling almost €80,000 against the claimants, said the court accepted that a car with four people in it had been driven to a predetermined site where it was to be rear-ended by a hire car.