Personal Injury Law

Washington DOT Settles Lawsuit Over Dangerous Road

By Edward Bills

The Washington State Department of Transportation has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man involved in a serious motorcycle crash in 2006. The motorcycle rider claimed in his lawsuit that the DOT was aware for years that the roadway where he crashed was dangerously designed, but had failed to do anything to fix it. The area has a high level of traffic accidents, and a 2001 report by the DOT recommended the road be fixed. Four years later, the morotcycle rider still cannot use his right arm and has limited mobility in his left hand,

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).