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4554 REVIEW DENIED The proprietor of a shopping mall who provided an access ramp for the use of disabled persons, did not deny disabled persons equal access by maintaining in its parking lot a dangerously steep slope that such persons could avoid by using the access ramp; although the slope of the pavement exceeded statutory guidelines, no presumption of negligence resulted under the doctrine of negligence per se, because the purpose of the statute was to facilitate wheelchair access, and plaintiff was a user of crutches rather than a wheelchair; although the access ramp provided for use by disabled persons had a slope that exceeded federal guidelines, a disabled plaintiff who did not use the ramp could not show that she had been denied equal access without showing that the slope made the ramp unsafe for her use.CitationURHAUSEN v LONGS (Sloping Pavement) 155 CA4 254 [See: CivC 54.1, 54.3; EvC 669; Gunther v Lin 144 CA4 223, T/AT 11/06; Madden v Del Taco 150 CA4 294, T/AT 6/07]
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