Passengers on a Luas helped a distraught mother search for the tip of her two-year-old child's finger following an incident involving a hinged retractable seat on a tram, a judge was told today
Barrister Nathan Reilly told Judge Michael Walsh in the Circuit Civil Court that the end of Amie Quaid's left ring finger had been completely amputated in the incident in September 2016.
Mr Reilly, who appeared with Donal T. McAuliffe Solicitors for Amie and her father, Eoin Quaid, said surgeons at Our Lady’s had successfully reattached the fingertip and the child had continued to be treated for dressings at the hospital’s outpatient department. A female passenger who had been helping Amie’s mother search for the missing piece of finger found it attached to a hinge on a retractable seat. She wrapped it in tissue paper and gave it to Amie’s mum.
Mr Reilly said that while the reattachment of the fingertip had been successful, Amie would have a permanent cosmetic deformity of her finger and was seeking compensation for both psychiatric and physical injury.
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