Dropped a bike, grass on the road, need advise

[killerkeith]

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Sweet drama. Came to laugh at OP but now feel bad for her.

The open left lane will be your down fall here. I agree someone else should pay, but the left lane was clear and should have been used to by pass the hazard. You lose. Next case people.

 

[drumstyx]

Wow.
Nobody died here.
A sinkhole?????
C'mon.

So if someone wipes out, injures himself to the extent that he's off work due to broken bones, (not quite) writes off his bike, because he ran over a bag containing multiple soiled diapers he can/should sue....somebody?

I have heard of someone who fell off due to the above by the way.

If that bag of dirty diapers belongs to the daycare who haphazardly didn't tie up the bag, then yes, the rider should sue.

 

[ZX600]

A tree falling on the road and you smashing into it = tough luck
A government employee being lazy and not doing the job properly = Responsibility due to negligence

Not to interrupt you Lawyer types and legal arguments, but...
The roads are the roads are the roads.
They may be covered in debris, including (but not limited to) sand, mud, gravel, leaves, dead critters, blood, radiator fluid, motor oil... etc.
Not to mention potholes, gutters, streetcar tracks, curbs...
The 'real world' roads don't resemble manicured racetracks - not at all.
Now, GTAMers know this stuff already.
The reason I mention it is because, riding in the rain is dangerous; especially if the pavement is not clean! As the OP will testify.
There can be no reasonable expectation of the road not having grass on it (just like everything else). It is there.
It might be there tomorrow; it might be there next month...
And it is after all only a 50 km/h zone, anyway.
Point is, this is what happens! Trying to blame or sue someone isn't always going to cut it.
Maybe the local (Jamestown) kids threw grass on the road - who knows?
But you can't be trying to sue somebody every time you have a wipeout, thinking you have been promised perfect, spotless roads...
Because you have not.

 

[hedo2002]

A tree falling on the road and you smashing into it = tough luck
A government employee being lazy and not doing the job properly = Responsibility due to negligence

UNLESS of course your lawyer can show that the tree was diseased and the property owner, (private of city blvd), either knew or ougth to have known it was diseased and in danger of falling.

 

[ZX600]

Replace "Falling tree" with "fallen tree immediately after being hit by lightning"

UNLESS of course your lawyer can show that the tree was diseased and the property owner, (private of city blvd), either knew or ougth to have known it was diseased and in danger of falling.

 

[CafeRay]

A tree falling on the road and you smashing into it = tough luck
A government employee being lazy and not doing the job properly = government employee

fixed.

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