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09/10/2012
€12,000 Damages For Man Pushed Off Bus
A man left semi-paralysed after suffering a stroke has been awarded €12,000 compensation after he was pushed off a bus by the driver.
62-year-old Sean McGuinness, a former civil servant, said he hit his head off the footpath and was crying and shouting for help with his feet still on the bus and his body on the ground.
Dublin Bus accepted Mr McGuinness had fallen as a result of the bus driver having pushed him.
Describing the incident Mr McGuinness, of Black-rock, Co Louth, told how he had suffered a stroke in 2008 and a year later was in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, for tests and treatment.
His sister had taken him into the city centre and later left him to a bus stop in O'Connell Street, only two stops away from the hospital.
"I went into the bus and put the minimum fare in the machine," he told his barrister, Donough McDonough. "I muttered something about the fare being expensive and the driver told me I hadn't put in enough."
Mr McGuinness said the driver told him to get off. The driver then pushed him off the bus and he fell and hit his head against the path, he claimed.
Judge Matthew Deery awarded Mr McGuinness €12,000 damages.
(H/GK)
62-year-old Sean McGuinness, a former civil servant, said he hit his head off the footpath and was crying and shouting for help with his feet still on the bus and his body on the ground.
Dublin Bus accepted Mr McGuinness had fallen as a result of the bus driver having pushed him.
Describing the incident Mr McGuinness, of Black-rock, Co Louth, told how he had suffered a stroke in 2008 and a year later was in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, for tests and treatment.
His sister had taken him into the city centre and later left him to a bus stop in O'Connell Street, only two stops away from the hospital.
"I went into the bus and put the minimum fare in the machine," he told his barrister, Donough McDonough. "I muttered something about the fare being expensive and the driver told me I hadn't put in enough."
Mr McGuinness said the driver told him to get off. The driver then pushed him off the bus and he fell and hit his head against the path, he claimed.
Judge Matthew Deery awarded Mr McGuinness €12,000 damages.
(H/GK)
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