Court fines parent Dhs37,000 after minor son causes accident in Abu Dhabi

Abdulrahman Saeed, Staff Reporter
Abu Dhabi Court of Family, Civil and Administrative Cases obligated a parent to pay Dhsa37,000 to a woman, after his minor son, while driving a vehicle, caused a traffic accident which caused damage to her vehicle.
The details date back to an earlier time when a woman filed a lawsuit against an insurance company and the parent of a minor in which she requested that they be jointly obligated to pay her Dhs15,000, the value of repairing her vehicle which was damaged as a result of the fault of the minor, in addition to obligating them to pay her Dhs25,000 in compensation for the material and moral damage she incurred.
The plaintiff said that a criminal case was issued against the parent, convicting his son after he caused damage to her vehicle and made it unusable, and that the ruling became final after the deadline to appeal it had passed.
The plaintiff’s lawyer attended the session and submitted a memorandum amending the requests, which included a request to drop the dispute against the insurance company and obligate the parent to pay her client Dhs49,859 and 12% interest, along with fees and expenses of the lawsuit and the lawyer’s fees.
The court explained that the son’s mistake was proved and had caused material damage to the plaintiff and that the assigned expert’s report proved that the value of repairing the damage to the plaintiff’s vehicle was Dhs19,000 and then obligated the parent to compensate the plaintiff for all the material and moral damages she incurred with Dhs37,000.