Public Liability Accident
Our client submitted a personal injury claim as a result of an accident in February 2008. She was walking to her flat along a pathway at around 8.00pm. The pathway was unlit as the surrounding streetlights had been inoperative for around a month.
The Defendant, a water company, had been digging up this area for a few weeks, and whilst there was plastic sheeting down to walk across, this had become muddy and slippery.
As the Claimant stepped on this sheeting, in this narrow and unlit pathway, she slipped and fell, causing an injury to her lower back.
A claim was brought against the Defendants in accordance with the Highways Act 1980 given that the pathway is a highway within the meaning of the Act. They were negligent in that they allowed the pathway to be dangerous, failed to provide the public with adequate, or any, lighting and exposed the Claimant to a foreseeable risk of injury.
Liability was admitted in full and the Claimant received £3,250.00 in September 2009 in respect of her claim for personal injuries.