Woman considers suit after fall in hole

A Sidney woman is considering
legal action against the Town of
Sidney after a manhole cover
apparently flipped up, causing to
her to fall hip-deep into a manhole
near a gas station on Canora Road.

Kathy Hanson said that at about
4:30 p.m., Nov. 19, she took her
four-year-old son and a friend to
Clair Downey’s service station on
Canora Road for some drinks.

While crossing a grassed area,
Hanson stepped on the manhole
cover, causing it to flip up.

“When I stepped on it, the cover
flipped and I went down in,”
Hanson said. ““My left leg went
right in, down to the lower part of
my back.

“When I fell in, somebody in an
orange truck, who was just pulling
out of Clair Downey’s, stopped but
took off again after he saw that I
was able to get out by myself,” she
said.

Hanson said the area was not
marked with signs or other objects
and that a person in the gas station
called the Town of Sidney to notify
them of the problem.

“I was in a lot of pain but
managed to go home by myself,
although I hardly could walk,” she
said.

Hanson called the Town about
the problem the next day and said
she was told the Town could not
take responsibility because they

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were not aware the manhole cover
was faulty.

The Weiler Avenue resident is
now taking physiotherapy treat-
ments three times each week for
injuries to her leg and back.

Hanson also has an appointment
with a knee specialist this month,
who is expected to look at a knee
cartlidge injury she alleges to have
received while falling through the
manhole cover, she said.

Since the accident, a new man-
hole cover has been put in place,
she said.

Sidney’s administrator Geoff
Logan said Dec. 17 the issue is in
the hands of the municipality’s
insurance adjuster.

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