Originally published in TEDR Volume 11 Issue 1 (publication date not recorded).
[2005] EWCA Civ 277 TEDR Volume 11 Issue 1
This case concerned two claimants who claimed that, whilst waiting at traffic lights in the centre of York, one of the Defendant’s buses collided with their car, and that they sustained back injuries as a result.
The single joint expert in the matter, a forensic motor vehicle engineer, gave evidence to the effect that the damage sustained to the claimants’ car was so minimal as to suggest that the collision had not in fact caused the car to move at all, let alone jolt sufficiently to cause back injury.
The claimants called no technical evidence to challenge the expert’s view and simply relied on their own evidence that the collision had happened and had caused them injury.
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