{"id":312109,"date":"2026-05-12T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:58:19","slug":"im-one-of-many-whove-sustained-an-injury-on-l-a-s-broken-sidewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312109\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m one of many who\u2019ve sustained an injury on L.A.\u2019s broken sidewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I am one of those people who was injured by a fall while walking in my neighborhood a few months ago (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-09\/lopez-column-los-angeles-mayor-race-bass-pratt-raman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cIn race for L.A. mayor, no winners but one big loser: The voters,\u201d<\/a> May 9). Just one block from home, I tripped on a 2-inch-high bit of unevenness between two squares of sidewalk. This resulted in five stitches on my lip, bruises, scrapes and a concussion. Thankfully, my insurance covered all of my medical care, and there were no broken bones or more serious problems. But I am still recovering.<\/p>\n<p>There are many unsafe sidewalks in my neighborhood, some with more severe brokenness. A neighbor told me his 3-year-old has fallen many times on these uneven sections.<\/p>\n<p>This problem is fixable, but on the long \u201cto-do\u201d list for the city. I get that. There are so many dangerous things going on all over. But does it have to come to the point where I\u2019m afraid to walk outside my front door?<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Nojima, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I am one of those people who was injured by a fall while walking in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14080,92758,130800,2072,349,2303,64873,48,52,51,46506,47,50,49,63,290,89466,121691,74895,130801,1522],"class_list":["post-312109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bit","tag-broken-sidewalk","tag-bruise","tag-editor","tag-injury","tag-l-a","tag-l-a-mayor","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lip","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-neighborhood","tag-scrape","tag-serious-problem","tag-square","tag-unevenness","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}