Superbiker Starts £300,000 Accident Compensation Claim
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Motorbike Accident Injury
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By Motorbike Accident Injury
Published on 02/16/2008
A Superbiker who involved in an horrific motorbike accident has launched a legal battle for accident compensation of more than £300,000.
Superbiker Claims Accident Compensation
The Superbiker, a Mr Jamie Morley has been left disabled and on 32 painkillers a day after being hit by a motorbike at 100mph.
The 34-year-old, from Hayling Island, was taking part in a British Superbike Championship Race at Brands Hatch, Kent, in 2004, when the crash happened.
Mr Morley was thrown from his bike trying to avoid fellow racer Mark Heckles who had lost control on the first lap.
While lying by the roadside, Mr Morley was hit by another bike at 100mph. He is now suing race organiser MCRCB Events Ltd for alleged negligence.
In his High Court writ, Mr Morley says the race should have been cancelled because of heavy rain before it started, which had made the track laden with puddles and he claims too slippery to be deemed safe.
Mr Morley, said: 'I was conscious the whole time and I knew something was seriously wrong when I couldn't feel my legs. 'I was losing a lot of blood and it was coming out of my leathers. My pelvis had actually come out through my skin.'
Racer Darren Mitchell, 31, from Huddersfield, was catapulted from his bike in the pile-up and hit a bridge, suffering fatal injuries in the accident. Mr Morley broke his pelvis in four places and suffered serious internal wounds. He was in hospital for four months after the crash and underwent 14 operations. Four years later, he has been left with bladder and bowel problems and paralysis in his left leg, which doctors have said will never improve. Mr Morley, who will never be able to work, is claiming compensation for a life-time of lost income in his job as a roofer. 'I probably had another 40 years of work in me,' he said. 'I am now living in constant pain.'
His High Court writ claims that MCRCB Events Ltd negligently failed to carry out any proper assessment of the potential dangers to riders, and exercised poor judgment and failed to take views from riders. He said it was difficult for the 33 riders to see and the amount of spray impaired vision.
In the writ, Mr Morley also accuses the race organiser of failing to have insurance against death or injury to riders. His solicitor William Ware, of Warner Goodman, based in Portsmouth, said: 'Although we are an experienced firm, the video footage of the accident is the most horrific I have ever seen.'
Stuart Higgs, race director for MCRCB Events Ltd, based at Silverstone in Northamptonshire, said that the company could not comment until after the court hearing.
He said: 'We won't be making any comment with the claim outstanding and the court hearing pending.'
The 34-year-old, from Hayling Island, was taking part in a British Superbike Championship Race at Brands Hatch, Kent, in 2004, when the crash happened.
Mr Morley was thrown from his bike trying to avoid fellow racer Mark Heckles who had lost control on the first lap.
While lying by the roadside, Mr Morley was hit by another bike at 100mph. He is now suing race organiser MCRCB Events Ltd for alleged negligence.
In his High Court writ, Mr Morley says the race should have been cancelled because of heavy rain before it started, which had made the track laden with puddles and he claims too slippery to be deemed safe.
Mr Morley, said: 'I was conscious the whole time and I knew something was seriously wrong when I couldn't feel my legs. 'I was losing a lot of blood and it was coming out of my leathers. My pelvis had actually come out through my skin.'
Racer Darren Mitchell, 31, from Huddersfield, was catapulted from his bike in the pile-up and hit a bridge, suffering fatal injuries in the accident. Mr Morley broke his pelvis in four places and suffered serious internal wounds. He was in hospital for four months after the crash and underwent 14 operations. Four years later, he has been left with bladder and bowel problems and paralysis in his left leg, which doctors have said will never improve. Mr Morley, who will never be able to work, is claiming compensation for a life-time of lost income in his job as a roofer. 'I probably had another 40 years of work in me,' he said. 'I am now living in constant pain.'
His High Court writ claims that MCRCB Events Ltd negligently failed to carry out any proper assessment of the potential dangers to riders, and exercised poor judgment and failed to take views from riders. He said it was difficult for the 33 riders to see and the amount of spray impaired vision.
In the writ, Mr Morley also accuses the race organiser of failing to have insurance against death or injury to riders. His solicitor William Ware, of Warner Goodman, based in Portsmouth, said: 'Although we are an experienced firm, the video footage of the accident is the most horrific I have ever seen.'
Stuart Higgs, race director for MCRCB Events Ltd, based at Silverstone in Northamptonshire, said that the company could not comment until after the court hearing.
He said: 'We won't be making any comment with the claim outstanding and the court hearing pending.'