Former high-earning financial executive Ingrid Van Wees, 40, was today awarded £1.1m damages in her High Court claim for road crash injuries which destroyed her intellectual abilities and wrecked her career.
Miss Van Wees, who used to live in Walton Crescent, Oxford, but now lives and works in Cologne, Germany, was said to have an IQ in the "very superior range" before she was injured when a scooter on which she was riding pillion collided with a car in Farringdon Street, central London, on May 22, 2000.
She was thrown into the road and knocked unconscious. Her lawyers said the accident caused serious brain damage, which robbed her of the chance of a glittering career.
She had claimed damages of £9,956,319 from the drivers of both the scooter and the car.
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