NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) -- New York City has spent $138 million in taxpayer dollars to settle injury claims from potholes and road defects in the past six years, the city's comptroller said Thursday.
The comptroller's report showed there have been 5,913 personal-injury claims for "defective roadways" from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2015. Of those, 2,681 claims, mostly trip-and-fall injuries, were settled at a total cost of $136.3 million. Another 12,286 claims were filed for vehicle damage in the same period. Of those, the city paid on 1,549 claims, at a total cost of $1.5 million.