Young man who suffered brain injury in car collision settles action for €2.7m

Man, then 17, suffered multiple injuries when a car came out of a GAA ground and collided with the car where he was a front-seat passenger

Teenager was knocked unconscious in collision and suffered multiple injuries to his face and a CT scan of the brain later revealed air in the brain. He also had extensive facial bone and skull fractures and a significant injury to his left eye, High Court heard.

A young man who suffered a brain injury when the car in which he was a passenger spun around the road and hit a wall after a collision has settled his High Court action for €2.7m.

Joshua Nevin, the High Court heard, was only 17 years of age when the accident happened six years ago as a car was coming out of a GAA ground in Co Cavan and collided with the car where he was a front-seat passenger.