Young mum forced to have leg amputated in 81mph BMW hit-and-run horror wins £1m compensation

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1. Not even that much if you consider she’s 26 and got potentially 60ish years of disability a head of her.

2. >Granger was jailed for 33 months and banned from the roads for seven years in May

   Wtf and he’s allowed to drive again? It’s only random chance the other person is alive, driving like that in the first place is essentially an attempt to kill.

3. Was he insured or is this public money? She needs the money of course.

   Life ban surely?

4. From personal experience with my niece who lost her legs to the hips in a car crash too, whilst that 1m pounds seems magnanimous and incites some resentment, her new prosthetics cost over £30,000.

   She’s 13 and still growing so she requires new legs every couple of months. The NHS prosthetics were too big and she was told to use a wedge of wood…

   That 1 millions will cover this lady’s prosthetic, physiotherapists, carers, house adaptive aids, wheelchairs, and disability cars. My niece received more than his lady but from 13 to 80 is what the insurance company must provide for.

   There are stipulations too. The money isn’t just given in a lump sum neither, it’s separated meticulously into a catalog of needs that are assigned a guesstimated amount for her life time. Eg so much for therapy, 400,000 for legs and aid, 250,000 for a lifetime of house adaptions.

5. At least the guy was jailed. I’ll never understand why jail sentences for things like this are so lenient though and why it doesn’t result in a permanent removal of the drivers license.

   He’s given her life-long disability. At the very least he should have a life-long consequence as a result.

6. £1m is very little in this context. Prosthetics are expensive and need replacement every few years.

7. Sounds like a lot of money but assuming she lives for another 60 years that’s only 16,000 a year to pay for any treatment costs, adaptive works for houses and cars, lifelong aches, pains, discomfort, anxiety… I wouldn’t swap a leg for 16,000 a year – that’s nearly 7 grand less than a yearly minimum wage salary!

8. If I needed to have my leg amputated I’d be very concerned about having to have it done in an 81mph hit and run. I guess that’s the state of the NHS at the moment though.

9. 1 million isn’t enough to lose a leg for

10. Any reason why they need to report on the fact she’s a mother? Does it bare any relevance to the story at all?

11. I’d rather have my leg 

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13. Why wasn’t the driver banned for life? Seven year driving ban? Christ the courts are toothless.

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