Kavanagh, J.

Plaintiff commenced this action against defendant, alleging that it was negligent in maintaining a portion of Mohonk Road in the Village of High Falls, Ulster County where he fell after stepping in a hole that was located on the shoulder of the roadway. After discovery was complete, defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint because written notice of the defect as required by a local law had not been served on it prior to plaintiffs accident ( see Local Law No. 6 [1980] of County of Ulster; see also Highway Law § 139). While conceding that such notice had not been provided, plaintiff argued that defendant had constructive notice that a hole existed in the shoulder of the highway before his accident and, as such, service of written notice of the defect was not required ( see Highway Law § 139). Supreme Court granted defendant's motion, prompting this appeal. We affirm.

Even if a local law exists requiring prior written notice of a defect, a civil action may be commenced absent such notice against a municipality for injuries resulting from a defect in a highway under its care if the "defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed condition existed for so long a period that the same should have been discovered and remedied in the exercise of reasonable care and diligence" (Highway Law § 139; see Napolitano v Suffolk County Dept. of Pub. Works, 65 AD3d 676, 677; Phillips v County of Nassau, 50 AD3d 755, 756; Duger v Estate of Carey, 295 AD2d 878, 878; DeHoust v Aakjar, 290 AD2d 927, 927, lv dismissed 98 NY2d 692).

Here, as previously noted, plaintiff acknowledges that defendant did not receive written notice of the existence of the defect prior to his accident, but claims that a photograph establishes that the hole in the shoulder of the highway existed for a significant period of time prior to his fall and, if the road had been properly maintained, the hole would have been discovered and repaired before the accident occurred. In response, defendant submitted deposition testimony of a Highway Department official who stated that he had inspected the roadway where the fall is alleged to have occurred each week for the entire year immediately prior to plaintiffs accident and never saw the hole as depicted in the photograph or any other defect in that area of the roadway ( see Moxey v County of Westchester, 63 AD3d 1124, 1125; Appelbaum v County of Sullivan, 222 AD2d 987, 988; see also Goldburt v County of Nassau, 307 AD2d 1019, 1020, lv denied 1 NY3d 504). In addition, plaintiff has not established that the photograph accurately reflected the condition or the configuration of the hole as it existed at the time of his accident or when, in fact, the photograph was actually taken. More importantly, the photograph, as the only evidence submitted by plaintiff as to the size and condition of the defect, does not, in our view, establish that the hole existed for a sufficient period of time prior to the accident to have allowed defendant an adequate opportunity to discover it and take steps necessary to remedy the condition ( see Di Sanza v City of New York, 11 NY3d 766, 767; compare Tanner W. v County of Onondaga, 225 AD2d 1074, 1074-1075). Simply stated, the evidence plaintiff submitted — or the lack thereof — did not serve to establish that a question of fact exits as to whether defendant had constructive notice of the hole along the highway prior to this accident. As such, Supreme Court properly granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs.