AAP General News (Australia)
04-18-2001
NSW: Quadriplegic trainee teacher awarded $7 million
A trainee teacher left a quadriplegic after an accident during a school excursion has
been 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.
Mr BECK, then 21, collided head first with a rock behind a small bush he went through
while riding a makeshift toboggan 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.
AAP RTV gl/jjs/pc/jtb
KEYWORD: BECK (SYDNEY)
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