Little girl paralysed in car crash settles action for €1.4m interim payout

The court heard Amira O’Toole Rauf will never walk, has cardiac difficulties and has had to have a pacemaker inserted

Amira O’Toole Rauf (centre), who settled an interim action over a car crash which left her paralysed, with her mother Caroline O’Toole Rauf (right) leaving the Hight Court in Dublin on Wednesday. Picture: Collins Courts

A seven-year old girl who was left paralysed from the waist down in a car crash when she was a toddler has settled a High Court action with a €1.4m interim settlement.

Amira O’Toole Rauf was only 13 months old when she was catastrophically injured in a head-on collision as she sat strapped in her child seat in the back of her mother’s car six years ago.