{"id":417,"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/how-pedestrians-can-be-safe-during-the-winter\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:29","slug":"how-pedestrians-can-be-safe-during-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-pedestrians-can-be-safe-during-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"How pedestrians can be safe during the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living with treacherous sidewalks and parking lots is a way of life in upstate New York. After all, with all the snow that we receive during the winter (and unfortunately sometimes during the spring) you would think that store and building owners would know that they have a legal duty to keep entry ways and parking lots reasonably free of snow and ice.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it does not always happen that way. Because of this, pedestrians are injured in slip and falls during the winter. However, as the old adage says, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With that, we offer some helpful tips for pedestrians as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/premises-liability.html\">navigate<\/a> icy sidewalks, entryways and parking lots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make storeowners aware of dangerous conditions \u2013 <\/strong>As we alluded to earlier, property owners have a duty to take reasonable steps to make ingress and egress safe for customers. However, if they are not put on notice about dangerous conditions, it may be difficult to establish liability for an owner who does not know that such conditions exist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-pedestrians-can-be-safe-during-the-winter\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading How pedestrians can be safe during the winter\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living with treacherous sidewalks and parking lots is a way of life in upstate New York. After all, with all the snow that we receive during the winter (and unfortunately sometimes during the spring) you would think that store and building owners would know that they have a legal duty to keep entry ways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premises-liability","tag-premises-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How pedestrians can be safe during the winter &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 9, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How pedestrians can be safe during the winter - Premises Liability - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-pedestrians-can-be-safe-during-the-winter\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How pedestrians can be safe during the winter &#8212; 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