AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2001
NSW: Quadraplegic trainee teacher awarded $7 million
SYDNEY, April 18 AAP - A trainee teacher who was left a quadriplegia after a tobogganing
accident during a school excursion to the snow was today awarded more than $7 million
in damages.
David Beck, 27, sued the State of New South Wales and Perisher Blue Pty Ltd in the
NSW Supreme Court for negligence after suffering a severe spinal cord injury on the trip
to Blue Cow Mountain in Kosciuszko National Park in September 1995.
The then 21-year-old struck a rock head first which was behind a small bush he went
through while riding an old real estate sign down a snow covered slope.
Justice Timothy Studdert found the State and Perisher Blue had been negligent and breached
the duty of care they owed to Mr Beck.
He awarded Mr Beck a total of $7,058,475.
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KEYWORD: BECK
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