SMVAF MUST MAKE AN OFFER - VICTIM

MBABANE – A woman who sustained serious injuries to her head and ribs in a car accident wants SMVAF to make her an offer for compensation.
SMVAF is an acronym for Sincephetelo Motor Vehicle Accident Fund.

Ellen Chellen, who has since approached the High Court, does not state the amount she is expecting from SMVAF but wants the fund to make an offer.
In her application, Chellen stated that on April 16, 2011, at Nazarene Traffic Lights intersection, she was involved in a motor vehicle accident. 

She pointed out that she was a passenger in the vehicle, a Chevrolet registered DSD323AH, which was driven by her husband Jacque Chellen.
The car, according to Ellen, collided with a kombi registered XSD 036 AM that was driven by a certain Manqoba Mtsetfwa.

She told the court that she sustained bodily injuries, which required her to be transferred on an emergency to UNITAS Hospital in Pretoria where she was hospitalised for three months.
Ellen claimed that she was in the intensive care unit (ICU) for approximately three weeks due to the gravity of the injuries, which were almost fatal.
“I sustained serious injuries to my head, skull, face, mouth, jaw, blunt chest trauma, fractured ribs and other bodily areas covered in my claim document and medical reports, some of which are now permanent,” submitted the applicant (Ellen).

She went on to state that the nature and extent of her injuries were not in dispute. 
The applicant further submitted that on her return from Pretoria she instructed her attorney, Jose Rodrigues, to file and lodge a motor vehicle accident claim for her injuries and the costs.
Ellen alleged that the claim was accordingly filed and lodged with SMVAF where she was issued with a claim number.
She said the claim was being dealt with in accordance with the standard claim procedures of SMVAF, where she was inter alia required to undergo numerous medico-legal examinations to date to enable the fund to assess and appreciate the full extent of her injuries for quantification and settlement.

“I have, since the filling of the lodgement of my claim, attended numerous medico-legal examinations with neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, maxillo- facial surgeon, neuropsychologist, ophthalmologist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, eye surgeon and strabismologists both in Swaziland and South Africa throughout 2012 to date,” alleged Ellen.
She averred that in or about December 2014 after attending battery medico-legal examinations throughout 2012, 2013 and 2014, she had a hope that SMVAF had obtained adequate information from the medico-legal examinations reports to enable it to obtain a proper assessment of her claim to settle it.

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