Khatib v. N.C. Dep't of Transp.

ELMORE, Judge.

*168 Plaintiff Basma Khatib appeals a decision and order of the North Carolina Industrial Commission denying her negligence claim against the North Carolina Department of Transportation ("NCDOT"). Khatib sustained injuries after she admittedly deviated from a pedestrian crosswalk to cut across a grass median and stepped into an uncovered storm drain, falling five feet underground. She sued the NCDOT in the *169 Industrial Commission under the Tort Claims Act, see N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-293 , alleging that the NCDOT negligently failed to inspect and maintain the storm drain because when…