The family of a man who died after suffering catastrophic injuries in a collision with a recycling lorry have been award £1.2 million in compensation at the High Court.
Online publisher This is Wiltshire reports that 30-year-old Philip Wicks from Chippenham in Wiltshire – who died at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital in December 2010 – suffered devastating brain and orthopaedic injuries in the collision.
A father of three young sons, Mr Wicks was driving a van on the A350, when it collided with the recycling lorry between Chippenham and the M4.
After his death, his family launched legal action against the waste recycling company.
In court, insurers for the company agreed to settle the claim for £1.2m, which will be divided between Mr Wicks’ dependants, including his sons, who were aged five, three and two at the time their father died.
Negotiations in the settlement had been made complex because Mr Wicks’ sons were born to two different mothers, Natalie Baker and Emma Taylor.
Mr Wicks was at the time he died the joint owner of WP Fencing Ltd of Chippenham, which he had set up with a friend.
Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said in the High Court that the road accident in which Mr Wicks had died had been “tragic”. He told the court:
“This was clearly not a straight-forward case.
“Obviously the tragic events were set against a background of slightly more complicated personal circumstances.”
Approving the award, he added that the compensation settlement agreed between the parties and insurers was “appropriate”.
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