Court Upholds Ruling For 8 Year Old Boy Injured In A "Ramping" Accident

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The Fifth District Appellate Court in Mt. Vernon, Illinois affirmed upheld and the ruling of former Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran in favor of on eight-year-old boy who received personal injuries while riding his bike.

In October of 2001, Shelia Grant filed suit against South Roxana Dad’s Club on behalf of her son Zachary, who was eight at the time. Grant alleges that her son rode his bike over a pile of dirt on the premises of Dad’s Club for a practice called “ramping,” which Zachary described as riding a bike up one side of a curb, bump, or dirt pile to become airborne on the other side.

According to Grant, on August 18, 1999, her son and three of his friends spent most of the day riding their bikes outside in order to “ramp” at Dad’s Club. She says that in the parking lot of Dad’s Club, there were two dirt piles that were each approximately four feet high that had been brought it for a construction project months beforehand.

Grant says that her son lost control of his bike while “ramping” on the dirt piles when his handlebars twisted and he fell, resulting in a broken arm that required two surgical procedures. She said that the following day, the dirt piles were removed by Dad’s Club and spread around the premises.

According to Grant, Dad’s Club was negligent by leaving the dirt pile where it knew or should have known that children would be playing and through failure to warn the children of the danger.