I was recently having a game of bowls at a popular ten pin bowling establishment with my young nieces when I inadvertently stepped over the fowl line onto the very slippery alley surface, slipping & falling to the amusement of my competitors! And to add insult to injury, I managed to hit nothing at all!

Fortunately, although a bit sore, I didn’t suffer any serious injuries, but had I done so, then the bowling alley would have been liable for my injuries & any loss and damage I sustained as a result.

Slip & Fall the result of Negligence & Bowling Alley Liable to Pay Injury Compensation

This is because the bowling alley was negligent, and placed me at risk of injury. Why is this ? Firstly, the bowling alley had no clear marking of the fowl line indicating where the slippery alley surface began. There was also no signage warning of the danger whatsoever. There was no warning not to step over the fowl line as it was excessively slippery and could cause injury and neither was there any verbal warning of this when purchasing our game of bowls. The lighting in the area was also very poor, making the delineation between the fowl line and the slippery alley difficult to see. And as an  amateur at the sport of ten pin bowling, I was clearly unaware of the dangers as well as susceptible to crossing the line in my amateurish attempts to bowl a strike and required this warning.Continue reading→