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Original Post Date: 2007-02-28 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
An Australian paralysed after an accident on the Sani Pass road is claiming over R30-million and his wife R7,3-million from the driver – also Australian – and the KwaZulu-Natal roads department.
They are Murray Eastman, an electrical contractor, and his wife Jane, an accounts manager, of Canberra. They are suing the driver, Robert Mitchell, of Long Beach in New South Wales. They were in South Africa for a wedding in March 2005 and had decided to go up to the top of Sani Pass.
Advocate Jurie Wessels, SC, for the Eastmans, said in the Pietermaritzburg High Court at the start of the trial on Tuesday that his clients’ case against the roads department was that there were no signs warning drivers of dangerous areas, and no barriers to prevent vehicles sliding off the road.
Murray, who testified in a wheelchair, said their bakkie crashed after sliding off the road. He said that Mitchell told him to sit in the bin of the bakkie and he felt “uncomfortable” because he thought Mitchell was driving too fast on the bumpy road. Just before the accident he thought of making his feelings known. When the vehicle started sliding off the road he felt “sick in the stomach” and the next moment he was lying half in the vehicle and his legs on a grass embankment.
His wife asked if he was “OK” and he said he could not feel his legs.
A group of people arrived and a farmer’s wife, who was a qualified nurse, attended to him.
They were taken to Underberg hospital where painkillers were administered and taken to the Medi-Clinic in Pietermaritzburg.
He had a fracture dislocation of a thoracic vertebra, bleeding into the spinal canal, a dislocated shoulder, an ear injury and severe bruising. He was in hospital for about two months and faces further treatment in Australia. He is permanently disabled from paralysis.
Jane had two broken arms and underwent two operations to each arm and also needs further treatment in Australia. She was discharged nearly a month after admission. She suffers from reduced mobility and is permanently mildly disabled.
Both Mitchell and the roads department resist the claims. Mitchell alleges that Murray was negligent as he sat in the back of the bakkie and Jane was negligent as she was not wearing a seatbelt in the cab.
He said that they were joint wrongdoers and if damages were awarded they should be lower.
The roads department denies that it was liable for any damages as the sole case of the accident was Mitchell’s negligence.
The case is expected to continue all week. – Sapa
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