Injured During a Charity Walk/Charity Run Lawsuit Attorney

What Is the Purpose of Having a Charity Walk or Run?

Many people are able to provide needed support to a charity by walking and running in a marathon or a 5K run and walk for a good cause. It does support a local charity when you volunteer to walk or run with others for raising money for a charity, but there is a definite downside to walking for a charity.

The owners and operators of the charity may decide where you and the other volunteers will walk and run, but oftentimes the people setting up a walk and run for charity do not specifically check the road and walkway conditions before the races. It is important to do a careful check of the conditions before a walk or run for charity. This is because there may be hazardous conditions along the route, that will be creating unnecessary hazards for the walkers and runners. These dangerous conditions can lead to personal injuries for the runners. If you have been injured while participating in a walk or run for charity, you need to give our office a call today.

Injured Walking Over a Pothole

In the case that you are injured on a charity walk or run, you can expect that you will be injured falling over a pothole in the street. Often before these types of events, the city or charity run organizers and owners will not look at the walking and running routes in advance. Because they are lax in this area, they will miss the areas where there are clear and present hazards, from potholes, to areas of deep depressions, cracked streets or broken drains in the street.

The common injuries from falling in the street during a charity walk or run include injuries to:

• Knees
• Calf muscles
• Thighs
• Ankles
• Feet
• Hips
• Back and spine
• Shoulders
• Forearm
• Wrist
• Elbows
• Lower limb function
• Acute kidney injury
• Internal bleeding
• Respiratory issues
• Trouble breathing
• Shock
• Multiple organ failures
• Rib fractures
• Musculoskeletal fractures
• Anoxic brain injury
• Pulmonary contusions
• Spleen lacerations
• Liver lacerations
• Hypovolemic shock
• Reperfusion injury
• Cell death
• Acute kidney injury
• Tissue ischemia
• Severe head injuries
• Stress fractures
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Anterior knee pain
• Buttocks
• Groin area

People who experience a serious injury during a charity walk or run may be injured away from the place where the emergency team is waiting to treat them. This means that they may not get the help they need for several hours, prolonging the response time for the team to get the person the necessary emergency care on time.
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Injuries from a Broken Sidewalk / On Tree Roots

A person walking or running for a charity sponsored event can be injured quite seriously on broken sidewalk on account of tree roots. Trees that are nice and line the sidewalks in a city or town are there to provide ambiance, shade and greenspaces. But those tree roots can be dangerous when the city or town does not maintain the sidewalk area, allowing the roots to uproot the sidewalk in its wake.

A tree growing underneath a sidewalk will have roots that are very strong. The root system of a tree is continually seeking new ways to solidify itself in the environment, and is also looking for food, water and sinking into the ground even further for these nutrients. If a tree root system is not reviewed every year, that tree will completely break apart a sidewalk like no one’s business.

A tree rooting system can disrupt the sidewalk, by:

• Cracking the sidewalk area
• Making the sidewalk area more susceptible to cracking
• Vaulting the sidewalk
• Upheaval of the sidewalk
• Faulting the sidewalk area
• Eroding the sidewalk materials
• Displacement of the sidewalk
• Fracturing the sidewalk
• Deteriorating the surface of the sidewalk

If you are injured at a charity run or charity walk-a-thon, you can give us a call today to discuss your personal injuries. We are here for you, and you can call the Normandie Law Firm to help you right now.

Oily and Slippery on the Ground

The route for the charity walk or run may also have oil or slippery substances on the ground. These hazards can come from literally anything. If there are drinks spilled by the runners and walkers during the event, or there is debris from the people lining the streets to watch the event, there can always have the chance of being slippery or being oily during the running and walking route.

The organizers and owners of the charity event need to continually maintain the walking and running route for the charity participants to the event. This will help to prevent them from sustaining a serious personal injury from falling down during the walk or run for charity event.

Do I Have a Case If I Am Injured During a Charity Walk or Charity Run?

Yes, you have a case if you are injured during a charity walk or charity run. You may have been hit by a car, injured being walked on or run over by other walkers and runners, or having fallen down on any part of the course that was hazardous and not properly attended to before the race.

What Are My Rights and Who Can I Sue If I Am Injured?

You have a right to a lawyer if you are injured in a charity run or charity walk-a-thon. You can bring an action against the charity owners, operators and other people who are directly responsible for the running and organizing of the charity running and walking event. The charity run and walk does not materialize in thin air, it does not organize itself. There are real people behind it, responsible for it and accountable to anyone who is injured on the route of the event.

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When you give us a call at the Normandie Law Firm, you’ll have access to our attorneys who specialize in personal injuries from being hurt at a charity run or charity walk-a-thon. We are here to help you, and can give to you a free second opinion on your personal injury case, where you were injured at the run or walk for charity event.

Calling us at the Normandie Law Firm will allow you to take advantage of our free second opinion offer as well. You will have access when you call, to a lawyer with a specialty in personal injuries from a run or walk for charity. You’ll be glad that you called our lawyers who can help with your personal injury from the charity walk. Aren’t you ready to get going on initiating and starting the lawsuit you need to recoup your medical bills, with an experienced attorney in Los Angeles from the Normandie Law Firm? We are ready for you, and we can take your call anytime that you call us.

Can I Sue for Personal Injuries Suffered During a Walk or a Run for Charity Event?

Yes, we can sue if you are injured on a walk or run for a charity event. If this has happened to you, just call us at the Normandie Law Firm. You can talk to our Los Angeles case lawyers who can file a lawsuit on your behalf. We are on the case, and our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue on the merits of your claim.

Call for a Free Consultation

You can give us a call right now to discuss your injuries from a walk or run for charity. We are here to talk to you, and will review your personal injury case right now. Just give us a call at the Normandie Law Firm today. We can give to you a free consultation and review your case with you right now when you call.