A Scottish pensioner has been awarded almost £4000 compensation after suffering injuries when his car struck a mattress as he drove along a motorway.
Thomas McKenna, 71, was driving his car on the M8 near Glasgow when he hit part of a bed which had become dislodged and fallen from a vehicle ahead of him.
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Thomas Aitchieson, whose vehicle the mattress had fallen from, was ordered by the sheriff to pay Thomas £3770 compensation.
Sheriff Peter Hammond commented that the incident had aggravated an injury that Thomas, from Clydebank, had sustained in a previous car crash.
At Paisley Sheriff Court, in his written judgment, he stated that Aitchieson, of Paisley, had admitted that he was liable for causing the accident.
Injury Sheriff Hammond said: “The pursuer’s accident was caused by the negligence of the defender.
“The pursuer, having suffered loss, injury and damage due to the defender’s negligence, is entitled to reparation.
“Very little of the evidence was in dispute.
“The pursuer gave evidence in a straightforward way. I found him to be credible and reliable.
“The symptoms spoken to by him were entirely consistent with the views expressed in the agreed medical reports.
“There is no question, in my view, of the pursuer exaggerating his symptoms.”