MEP Jaroslaw Walesa wins damages in road crash case
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
06.11.2012 14:53
A son of former Polish president Lech Walesa has won damages after a court found a driver guilty of causing a near fatal road accident involving the MEP.
Judge Marian Kuncewicz reads the verdict: photo - PAP/Marcin Bednarski
The district court in Sierpc, north central Poland, gave Tadeusz M. (full name withheld under Polish privacy laws) a suspended prison sentence of two years for negligence, and has ordered him to pay 20,000 zloty (4850 euro) to Jaroslaw Walesa.
MEP Walesa (Civic Platform), who is 36, collided with a Toyota while driving his motorbike from Gdansk to Warsaw on 2 September 2011.
Walesa claims that he cannot remember the accident. He suffered a broken pelvis, as well as breakages to arms and legs, besides losing several litres of blood.
Tadeusz M. was performing a U-turn at the time of the accident.
Nevertheless, the court concluded that Walesa had been driving at between 106 and 124 km per hour (faster than the 90 km per hour permitted on the road in question).
Neither Walesa nor Tadeusz M. were in court on Monday when the sentence was read out. (nh)