RAF to pay R8m to crash victim
The Western Cape High Court has ordered the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to pay just over R8m to a Botrivier man who was involved in a T-junction crash in 2015.
A Cape Times report says the man, who was 17-years-old at the time of the incident, suffered a severe closed traumatic brain injury with intra-cranial haemorrhage and features of diffuse axonal injury.
In March, an order was granted by agreement in terms of which an interim payment was made by the RAF of R1.2m, to be set off against the final amount ‘either as agreed between the parties or proven’.
‘The order that follows takes this interim payment into account,’ the High Court judgment read.
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