A retired teacher has been awarded more than $200,000 for pain and suffering after a bus struck her near the Mandeville Market in Manchester in 2011, according to a Supreme Court judgment handed down last month. The award reflects a reduction after the court found she was partly responsible for the incident.

Justice Sonya Wint-Blair ruled on May 19 that the driver of a Toyota Hiace minibus breached his duty of care when the public passenger vehicle hit the former teacher on August 4, 2011. She was 73 years old at the time of trial in May 2025.

The court ordered the driver and the owner to pay 80 per cent of the damages. It said the former teacher was responsible for 20 per cent of the damages because she had failed to maintain a proper lookout while crossing a three-lane roadway. She filed the suit in 2012.