The Sverdlovsk District Court received more than 262 thousand rubles in favor of the owner of the Volkswagen Touareg, who damaged the wheels of his car in a ditch. About informs press office of the court.
The trial took more than 2.5 years: the incident in which the wheels of a right-handed SUV were damaged occurred on the Arti-Mikhailovsk highway in April 2020.
“The traffic policemen who went to the accident scene recorded the deficiencies detected on the highway. According to the press service, the size of the pit is 103X278X15 cm.
The first-instance court accepted the plaintiff’s claims, but the company responsible for the maintenance of the road appealed, arguing that it did not receive an order to patch the pothole and that the driver had violated traffic rules as the cause of the accident. The district court denied his claims.
It was learned that road workers rescued the driver in Kazakhstan before. lived 6 days around a truck that fell into a ditch.