This article originally appeared on The Age website on 29 June 2020.
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Her 45-year-old husband of almost two years was killed when her cousin, Jake Flintrop, took a corner too fast and slammed into a power pole at Morwell, in Victoria’s south-east in November 2016.
Now a single parent with five children to support, Mrs Roberts put in what’s called a nervous shock claim with the TAC. It is a common compensation claim brought by those whose loved ones have been killed in a car crash through no fault of their own.
Her lawyer Jeremy King, from Robinson Gill, said the TAC argued Mrs Roberts’ issues are pre-existing.
“If anything, her past makes it worse because she had been through so much and she had started to get her life together, she had her family together and had the love of her life and that was brutally ripped away,” Mr King said.
