A judge has ordered the City Hall of Granada to hand over 5,744 euros in damages caused by its tow truck. Apparently, the vehicle was insufficiently secured and came free, crashing off the back of the vehicle.

The owner had approached the City Hall demanding 7,806 euros in damages but the demand was rejected, so the owner went to court.

The result was, although he didn’t get the entire sum demanded, he did get almost two thirds of it.

The judge did say, however, that the complainant should have taken the tow-truck company that is hired for the task by the City Hall to court, rather than going directly for the City Hall. The judge, however, did not make much of this ‘error’ and he considered that citizens who make these kinds of claims should not be “run around.”

Finally, the judge threw out the car owner’s claim to be reimbursed for his taxi fares and pointed out that the fine for being ‘towed away’ for being badly parked stands.

(News: Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)