Los Angeles trip and fall cases that happen at night
As a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer, I’ve seen my fair share of trip and fall cases.
Recently, my office has been signing up more trip and fall cases where the injury happened at night. Here are a few scenarios:
-A woman is delivering mail (that was mistakenly delivered to her address) to her neighbor down the street and trips on the sidewalk pictured with this article. The good, neighborly samaritan suffers a broken wrist and facial fractures.
-A woman new to her neighborhood takes a stroll with her daughter and steps into a huge pit that was dug on the property’s parkway and never filled in properly. The property has no lighting, and the pit is surrounded by grass, so it’s not easily detected at night. The woman breaks her ankle.
-A woman walking to her car walks down a driveway apron (to avoid walking on wet grass) to get to her car, and the driveway is cracked. The woman’s foot gets caught in one of the cracks, trips, and suffers a fractured ankle that requires surgery
-A man visiting Los Angeles from the East Coast walks with his daughter down Pico Boulevard and trips on an uplifted sidewalk, breaking his hand and fingers and needs surgery. It turns out that several people complained previously about this particular sidewalk.
-A man visiting Los Angeles from out of state trips on an uplifted sidewalk, lands on his hip, and undergoes immediate hip replacement surgery.
As you can see, many of these trip and fall cases happen at night. Poor lighting was a significant factor in each of these cases.
Los Angeles is a bustling city with “bright lights” in the figurative sense of the word. But underneath the shiny exterior, there are thousands of people getting hurt every day due to the negligence of city agencies and private property owners.
If you or someone you know suffered a Los Angeles trip and fall on the sidewalk, on a driveway, or even on private property, and you want someone to review the case for you, my office will offer you a free consultation.
