A €250,000 settlement has been approved by Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns of the High Court for the family of a motorcyclist, James Walsh, who died in a tragic accident on Fethard Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary. The award was made to Catherine Walsh and the couple’s two daughters, who arrived at the scene of the accident shortly after it happened. The action was for mental stress and nervous shock. The children were eight and fourteen years old at the time of the accident.
It was alleged in court that the accident happened when James Walsh took evasive action to avoid another vehicle that emerged from a side road. Walsh swerved away from the vehicle but lost control of his motorbike and died from the injuries in the resulting crash.