Blind Spaniard caught speeding cleared of fraud

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MADRID (Reuters) - A blind man caught speeding on a Spanish motorway has been cleared of fraud after a judge rejected an insurance company's allegation that he could really see, court officials said on Thursday.


Domingo Merino was charged with fraud after insurers Mapfre said he had not been blinded in a traffic accident for which they were ordered to pay him 550,000 euros (361,268 pounds) in compensation in a 1998 case.

Mapfre argued that Merino could see since he had been caught driving at 154 km per hour (96 miles per hour) in a BMW just months before the trial.

A Barcelona judge ruled Merino did lose his sight in the previous traffic accident and accepted his explanation that his wife gave him the wheel of the BMW on a straight stretch of road, but he could not see where he was driving.
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If this doesn't make you ask WTF??? then there's something wrong with you.

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