Some of you are interjecting suppositions, and not the facts at hand. It doesn't matter if she was texting, picking her nose, looking for an address, the manhole is a dark steel gray metal that even when removed unless you are deliberately looking for an open manhole, or just happen to look at the very precise moment, are just not going to notice right away or until it's too late. They opened the manhole and left it unattended, even if it's for a split second, and as you see, what could happen, happened! This is an equal opportunity accident. The workers knew they were going to remove the manhole, while the girl, texting or not had no expectation of an open manhole while walking on the sidewalk.