Civil Plaintiff
A County in Washington State Has Reached a $16 Million Settlement in a Lawsuit Over a Deadly Car Crash
As Sunrise Boulevard descends downward into a long, lazy S-curve through a heavily wooded corridor, a wooden shelter has stood since 2016, full of stuffed animals — a memorial to two children who died that winter in car crash.
The exact spot is a little farther down the guardrail, where three pairs of crosses and two hearts are fastened to the tree that the minivan crashed into before the guardrail existed.
Last week, Tanya Canell, the minivan driver who lost her two girls in the 2016 crash, reached a settlement with Island County for $16 million. Another $500,000 went to a passerby who pulled the mother out of the fiery wreckage.
