I hit a sewer cover and broke my oil pan.
The reason is that they grinded down the street to get it ready to repave it and left the sewer cover extended high and it seems they created a small hole before the sewer cover.
If you watch the video you will see the first video is on 3/19 and shows road before grinding and see that there is no hole and sewer cover not elevated.
On 4/9 street is grinded down and I actually hit the sewer that time with the bottom of my car going very slowly but no damage. I wasn't sure at the time I hit it but after the 2nd time I knew.
On 4/16 I was going faster and this broke my oil pan,.. you can see the oil streak when I reverse.
The issues I can have is that in NYC they have a law that a pothole must be reported 15 days before the accident for you to claim. This is so that the city had notice of the damage and had time to fix it. However, if you can prove negligence then you can win.
Do you guys think this is negligence when grinding down the street and leaving the sewer cover exposed like that? Or is this just ordinary pothole damage.
I want to show that on 3/19 before they grinded down the street everything was fine. Then on 4/9 and 4/16 with the street grinded this left the sewer cover too high and exposed.
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