LI man awarded nearly $2M after having part of his thumb chopped off by his BMW’s ‘soft close’ door

He might not have two thumbs — but he’s getting nearly $2 million.

A jury awarded a Long Island man $1.9 million in damages after he had part of his thumb chopped off in 2016 by the motorized — and ironically named — “soft close” door of his BMW.

Godwin Boateng, a now-68-year-old software engineer from Valley Stream, was “giddy” over the verdict in Brooklyn federal court Thursday — which came nearly a decade after the life-changing amputation, his lawyer told The Post.

“We’re very happy with the award,” said Boateng’s lawyer, Avi Cohen.

Cohen added he and Boateng were happy they held out on BMW’s last settlement offer weeks before trial, which amounted to “peanuts.”

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While Boateng paid $70,000 for the BMW X5 – which he described to The Post as his “dream” car – the real price was the chunk of his right thumb that the not-so ultimate driving machine’s self-closing door sliced clean off in 2016.

Despite rushing to a nearby hospital with thumb in hand, surgeons declared the German-engineered amputation so severe that it made a reunion impossible.

“The doctor came in and looked at it and said, ‘I’m sorry.’ He said he couldn’t. The way it got severed, it couldn’t be saved,’’ Boateng told The Post in 2018.

Since then, Boateng has had to say goodbye to his once-weekly tennis games, develop new ways to use utensils and write – and keeps his disfigured hand stuffed in his pocket out of shame and embarrassment.

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“He has a loss of daily function,” said Cohen, who noted that the software engineer can’t even use his thumb to type on a computer keyboard because of how sensitive it now is, even after nearly a decade and several surgeries.

While the jury didn’t find the German car manufacturer liable of three other claims, including that the door had a dangerous design, they were convinced that BMW was not being totally forthright when it said only a couple of people had been injured by the mechanism, Cohen said.

BMW had actually previously admitted in an investigation by a German car regulator in 2016 that at least 44 injuries from their soft-closing doors had been reported worldwide, according to evidence presented at trial.

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Jurors, Cohen said, “got a very clear idea that [BMW] is being deceptive in [their] practices.”

“You’re not being truthful, you’re not being forthright and you’re not protecting your very own consumers,” Cohen said of BMW.

Boateng — who still owns his BMW X5 and considers it to be a fine car aside from its debilitating door –told his lawyer he was still shocked the company fought so hard on the case and probably ended up paying out more than it would have in a settlement.

“I cannot believe them,” Boateng said after the verdict, according to Cohen. “They had an opportunity to not go through this trouble, and they just didn’t take it seriously.”

BMW lawyer Phil Dilanni said the carmaker “stands by our products and refutes any suggestion that the vehicle in question was to blame for Mr. Boateng’s injury,” citing the fact that the jury did not find in favor of any claims of a defect.

But the jury also said in their verdict that they rejected claims from BMW that Boateng was at least partially responsible for his own disfigurement, placing the blame solely on the car company.

“We will appeal, if necessary,” Dilanni said.

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