Man run over by delivery driver while lying drunk in street can claim damages

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Man run over by delivery driver while lying drunk in street can claim damages
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‘A driver has a duty to take reasonable care for other persons using the highway; even persons who are lying on it in a drunken stupor'

The Inner House of the Court of Session ruled a driver’s duty of care to other road users includes ‘even persons who are lying on it in a drunken stupor’

Samuel Cameron was driven over while he lay intoxicated on a street ‘apparently asleep’ in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at around 5am on April 23, 2016. A previous decision dismissed a motion for interim damages, but the Inner House of the Court of Session has now ruled that legal action should not have been refused.

‘He failed to see him as he lay on the road. That is prima facie evidence that he failed to keep a good lookout.

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