A TEACHER has been awarded more than £2.3million in damages after suffering brain damage in a car accident.
Chan Sui Wan, now aged 37, was left with a brain injury affecting her intelligence and memory after the car she was travelling in lost control on the M61 at Kearsley and careered through a crash barrier.
The Hong Kong resident, who was a back seat passenger in the vehicle, had to give up teaching as a result of the accident in April 1993 and there was also a risk of epilepsy developing in the future.
She was awarded the damages against the driver's insurers to cover pain and suffering, loss of earnings and past and future care, at the High Court in Manchester.
The claimant had been living in this country and studying for a maths degree at Lancaster University.
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