Judge James O'Donohoe reduced a €50,000 damages award by 80% after finding the injured cyclist mainly responsible for a collision with a motorbike. The collision occurred at 6am in darkness on a September morning in 2020. The cyclist suffered a brain injury and twelve additional soft tissue injuries. The judge stated that cyclists had become a nightmare in Dublin. The reduction in damages reflected the allocation of primary responsibility to the cyclist rather than to the motorbike rider or other factors.
"Cyclists had become a nightmare in Dublin a judge stated today as he reduced a €50,000 damages award by 80pc to a cyclist who had suffered a brain injury when he and a motorbike collided."
"Judge James O'Donohoe decided that the injured cyclist was mainly responsible for the accident, which had taken place in darkness at 6am on a September morning in 2020, and in which he had suffered 12 other soft tissue injuries."
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