LI man awarded nearly $2M after having part of his thumb chopped off by his BMWs 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.”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.“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 actu...