Biker hits pothole and receives $6.5 million settlement from L.A (Los Angeles: sales, attorney)

[jm1982]

Does stuff like this happen in other cities in America ?

Also this isn't a one time thing there are a bunch of cases like this .

So the city is too broke to fix the roads or too incompetent so then we have to borrow money to pay out huge lawsuit settlements .
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He and his wife, Patricia, sued the city, the county and the state, arguing that the street he was bicycling on was so poorly maintained that it had created a “concealed trap for bicyclists.” As a result of government negligence, the lawsuit claimed, Godefroy had suffered injuries so severe that he expected to have “some permanent disability.”

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11 to 0 on Wednesday to approve the $6.5-million settlement.

Los Angeles OKs $6.5 million to settle lawsuit after cyclist hit a pothole - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...109-story.html

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Anybody who says this isn't one of this nation's most poorly managed cities and that Garcetti and the city council are not a cadre of incompetents is either extremely ignorant or a pathological liar.

[CaliRestoration]

It's okay, at least illegal aliens can still get public education and free health care. It's just money.

[Mike Town]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

It's okay, at least illegal aliens can still get public education and free health care. It's just money.

Other peoples money.

[TurcoLoco]

Now you know why the sales tax got over 10% in LA County!


On a side note, how the heck does anyone not see that pothole?

[NCN]

In North Carolina people who step on ice and fall or drive into a hole in the pavement do so at their own risk because we expect people to use their brains and avoid troubled areas.

[malcorub16]

Originally Posted by TurcoLoco

Now you know why the sales tax got over 10% in LA County!


On a side note, how the heck does anyone not see that pothole?

It could happen easily on a motorcycle, but a bicycle, it seems like you'd be going slow enough to see it coming ahead.

Originally Posted by NCN

In North Carolina people who step on ice and fall or drive into a hole in the pavement do so at their own risk because we expect people to use their brains and avoid troubled areas.

Good for y'all country girl.

[TurcoLoco]

Originally Posted by malcorub16

It could happen easily on a motorcycle, but a bicycle, it seems like you'd be going slow enough to see it coming ahead.



Good for y'all country girl.

If you look at the picture in the first link, you will see the stop sign 10 feet back. Even if someone haven't made a proper full stop (90%), they would still be going slow enough to see it. No biker in the right mind missed a pothole like that because it is a potential unknown.

Scratch all that, let's say our rider is a total moron and hit that pothole, bicyclist might go down but a biker should not. Just didn't seem that big. Even if both did, the damages should not be anywhere near to warrant a pay out like $6.5 million. That too me is nothing more than a slimy attorney partnered with a greedy a-hole, abusing the law. Nothing less.

I said it before I will say it again. The (in)justice system in this country loves to reward the idiots for seemingly their own mistakes if they can find the right attorney.

Anywhere else in the world, people would be to embarrassed to even speak of it, over here, they sue someone, or the system, like someone has to be responsible and pay for their own stupidity.

[payutenyodagimas]

there was also a lawsuit not so long ago that because the bike lane is too wide, one motorist mistaken it to be just another lane and so hit a biker. the biker sued the city and he too got millions.


cant remember what city but its in SoCal I think

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by TurcoLoco

Now you know why the sales tax got over 10% in LA County!


On a side note, how the heck does anyone not see that pothole?

Was it Mr. Magoo on that bike?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8GTHXTEvIc