The high court sentenced the teenager and his mother to pay 3.01 million yuan in joint and several compensation for the teenager who rode a bicycle without a driver's license and injured an engineer.

(Photo by reporter Yang Guowen)

[Reporter Yang Guowen/Taipei Report] A teenager surnamed Lin rode his mother's motorcycle to an intersection in New Taipei City. He turned from the outer lane in a "crab-like" cross-cut to the inner lane, hitting a computer engineer surnamed Shi who was riding straight. , causing Shi’s labor force to be degraded by as much as 42% and unable to work on computers anymore. The High Court determined that the cause of the accident was the illegal driving of the juvenile surnamed Lin. Compensation of more than 3.01 million yuan.

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Shi Nan filed a lawsuit alleging that when the boy surnamed Lin rode his mother's motorcycle to an intersection in New Taipei City and was about to turn left, he hurriedly turned left in a cross-cutting manner from the outside lane until he found that the boy named Lin's motorcycle was only 1 km in front of him. Chi Shi was too late to dodge and collided. The man and the car fell to the ground on the spot, unconscious, suffering from brain edema, traumatic hemorrhage and other injuries.

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Shi Nan accused the young man surnamed Lin for driving without a license and causing an accident. He was seriously injured and his labor force was greatly reduced, and he could no longer work on computers. He demanded that the young man surnamed Lin and his mother should jointly and severally compensate more than 5.51 million yuan.

Lin’s mother retorted that the traffic sign that her son rode to the intersection of the incident was a green light, so he continued to drive forward, and changed lanes from the outer lane to the inner lane to prepare for a left turn. Shi Nan should be responsible for 70% of the fault when he got on the motorcycle his son was riding.

According to the appraisal results, the judge found that when the accident happened, the boy surnamed Lin crossed into the inner lane from the outer lane and collided with Shi Nan, who was going straight. Shi Nan was traveling at about 30 kilometers per hour. When he saw Lin Shao's motorcycle, the two sides were only 1 km away. It took only 0.12 seconds to react. Obviously it was too late to react. The cause of the accident was that the boy surnamed Lin illegally turned left, and Shi Nan had no cause for the accident. The boy surnamed Lin and his mother should compensate Shi Nan more than 3.79 million yuan.

After deducting more than 780,000 yuan in compensation from Shi Nan's compulsory liability insurance, it was sentenced that the teenager and his mother should be jointly and severally compensated for more than 3.01 million yuan, and they could appeal.