Just reading on the net this morning that Lucas Dumbrell is preparing to sue both CAMS and Formula Ford Association over his incident in the FF race at Oran Park that put him in to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
During the last round of the 2008 Australian Formula Ford Championship at Oran Park, Dumbrell collected the back of a rival competitor under Safety Car conditions, rolling his car several times.
The incident has confined Dumbrell to a wheel chair for the rest of his life, which he is claiming will cost him millions in day-to-day care.
In the statement of claim, his lawyers allege that on turn one of the first lap another participant was involved in an accident.
Flag marshals were allegedly told to signal with yellow flags to instruct drivers to slow down.
It is alleged that as Dumbrell approached turn 10, a flag marshal waved a yellow flag and the vehicle in front of him slowed suddenly.
Dumbrell says he could not see the yellow flag signal and collided with the vehicle.
His car ran off the track, rolling several times, it is alleged.
Dumbrell is claiming that CAMS and AFFM were negligent in failing to implement adequate safety systems.
Slater & Gordon principal lawyer Paul Henderson told the Herald Sun that Dumbrell was a 19-year-old man with the world at his feet at the time of the accident.
CAMS and AFFM declined to comment.
I'm sorry the guy is now confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, but if everyone else saw the yellow flags and SC boards, and Dumbrell did not, then clearly he should not have been on the track in the first place.
In the statement lodged it says that both CAMS and AFFM failed to implement adequate safety systems, which is absolute rot when you consider every other category in Australia runs under the same flag system.
It says that the yellow flag was shown at turn 10, but with a SC it is displayed at all flag points and not at a single flag point, and it means just like a normal yellow flag that a change of track conditions that warn the driver that he needs to back off and be prepared. At least one driver did back off and the following driver did not.
I dare say if not for Dumbrell's injuries he would've been up fronting the stewards for failing to observe the yellow flag conditions and penalised appropriately for causing an avoidable incident.
Once again we get the 'ambulance chasers' going after the money.
This is one case that should be thrown out of court for wasting the courts time.
Opinions please.
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