Roy v. Department of Transportation

MCL 691.1402; MSA 3.996(102) provides an exception to governmental immunity for tort liability in favor of "[a]ny person sustaining bodily injury or damage to his property by reason of failure of any governmental agency to keep any highway under its jurisdiction in reasonable repair, and in condition reasonably safe and fit for travel . . . .” However, the statute provides that the governmental agency’s duty to repair and maintain, and its potential liability, "shall extend only to the improved portion of the highway designed for vehicular travel and shall not include sidewalks, crosswalks or…