A twenty seven year old Oxfordshire man has recently received compensation of £340,000, after sustaining serious head injuries in a road traffic accident which happened over five years ago.
According to the Oxford Mail, Michael Hankins, a former restaurant supervisor at Burger King, Cherwell Valley Services in Oxfordshire, was being given a lift home from work when the accident happened on a disused railway bridge. Mr Hankins had to be cut out of the car and given emergency surgery to remove two blood clots from his brain.
The road traffic accident left Mr Hankins on a life support machine for five days and he needed plastic surgery to reconstruct the part of his face under his left eye.
Mr Hankins has suffered from memory problems since the accident and has been unable to hold down a job. All he remembers about the accident is repeatedly telling the driver to slow down.
Mr Hankins says: “It has been five years of hell. My mum and dad have taken a lot of it with my temper. First of all I wasn’t allowed out on my own because I was on anti-epilepsy medicine and then there was the frustration because I can’t hold down a proper job”.
His father, who wasn’t even sure that Michael would survive the accident, says of the compensation award: “He’s never going to be the same again, the money is to pay for him and his future.”
The compensation will help Mr Hankins to rebuild his life and follow his dream of running discos.
