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Jun 15, 2010
CAR ACCIDENT CASE
Disabled teen to get $650k
His dad had sought $2.5m which included cost of rebuilding home to make it wheelchair accessible
<!-- by line --> By K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
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Takafumi and his father, Mr Kuroki. The teen was crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing near Tiong Bahru Plaza when he was knocked down five years ago. -- ST FILE PHOTO
A JAPANESE executive will receive about $650,000 in compensation for an accident which left his teenage son wheelchair bound five years ago. Mr Hiroyasu Kuroki, who is in his 50s, spent over $479,000 rebuilding his home in Japan after the accident in 2005. He had sought compensation of more than $2.5million from the motorist whose vehicle crashed into his then 14-year-old son, Takafumi, who had been crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing near Tiong Bahru Plaza.
Read the full exclusive story in Tuesday's edition of the Straits Times.
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