Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) can deliver knock-out punches even in low-impact collisions with smaller cars such as three and five-door hatchbacks, a judge ruled today in a â¬60,000 personal injuries claim arising out of âa bumpâ at traffic lights.
Judge James McCourt said in the Circuit Civil Court he was well acquainted with the outcomes of low-impact collisions between heavy SUVs such as the two-ton 2016 Jaguar that had rear-ended Fáilte Ireland driver and tour guide Natasha Roperâs nine-year-old Ford Fiesta.
In boxing parlance Judge McCourt told barrister Matthew Jolley, counsel for Ms Roper, the court accepted that a heavyweight Jaguar SUV could easily deliver a knock-out punch to such bantam or featherweight vehicles such as the Ford Fiesta even in low-impact collisions.