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Boy Slips on Ice and is Hit by School Bus in Minneapolis

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Minneapolis Slip and Fall Accident Involving School Bus

A 5-year-old boy slipped under a school bus this morning and was run over.  According to the Star Tribune:

The boy was waiting for the bus with his mother about 6:45 a.m. at E. 32nd Street and Elliot Avenue when the accident occurred, said police spokesman Bill Palmer.
"When the driver pulled up, the mother asked him whether it was her son's bus," he said. "When he told her it wasn't, they stepped back, the driver closed the door, looked around and started to move."
The boy, a student at Windom School, had apparently slipped on an icy patch and the bus rolled over him, Palmer said.
He was treated at Hennepin County Medical Center for multiple injuries, including a broken leg and broken pelvis. He was in surgery late this morning and his condition was not immediately available.

 Minnesota Slip and Fall Lawsuit: Claim Involving Ice and Snow

The owner and/or possessor of land has a duty to remove snow and ice and take any other appropriate action (salting walkways, for example) within a reasonable time after a storm has abated or before the storm has abated if there are "extraordinary circumstances" (1).
Municipalities and other governmental bodies are provided some immunity from liability for injuries arising from slips and falls on slippery streets and sidewalks, meaning most of the time they are not liable for these injuries.  But there are exceptions to their immunity.  In a recent Minnesota case involving slip and fall on ice and snow, the court stated that immunity “does not protect the municipality in the case where an accumulation of ice and snow is negligently permitted to remain for such a length of time as to cause the formation thereon by artificial means, of slippery and dangerous ridges, depressions and irregularities to such an extent as to render the street or sidewalk dangerous and unsafe for use” (2).

Slip and Fall on a Public Sidewalk or Street:
Liability of Abutting Landowner

Municipalities cannot delegate the duty to maintain its sidewalks and streets to abutting, private landowners.  This means that, in most cases, if someone slips and falls on a sidewalk, the municipality that owns the sidewalk is liable for damages resulting from the fall, and the abutting, private landowner is not liable.
However, there are situations in which abutting landowners can also be held liable for slips and falls on sidewalks and streets:

  • Where an abutting landowner or possessor makes use of a sidewalk for his or her own convenience and benefit and is also “of such nature, kind or degree, that a condition is created which interferes with, and is in derogation of, a normal use of the sidewalk by the public” (3).
  • Where an abutting landowner or possessor creates an artificial condition associated with the sidewalk and snow and ice create a hazard (4).

References:

  1. Mattson v. Luke’s Hospital, 252 Minn. 230, 234, 89 N.W.2d 743,745 (1958).
  2. Otis v. Anoka-Hennepin School District No. 11, 611 N.W.2d 390,392 (Minn. App. 2000).
  3. Graalum v. Radisson Ramp, Inc. 245 Minn. 54, 60-61, 71 N.W.2d 904, 909 (1955).
  4. Olson v. City of St. James, 380 N.W.2d 555, 560 (Minn. App. 1986).

Our Minnesota slip and fall accident attorneys have offices in Minneapolis and represent injury victims throughout Minnesota, including but not limited to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Bloomington, Eagan, Edina, Roseville, Woodbury, Duluth, Rochester, and St. Cloud.


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