As in the below Bremerton, WA case, GLCE’s staff toiled to find the answers to explain how a driver missed seeing two pedestrians in a marked crossing on a busy Seattle road on a cool and damp evening in 2013. Expert reports were filed and attorneys clashed, trying to resolve this matter.
The location of the collision was fraught with past pedestrian collisions and multiple complaints of poor lighting. Seattle made numerous modifications to the area to curb the accidents; however, their efforts never addressed the issue of poor lighting placement. GLCE’s Dan Billington argued that simply mounting a second luminaire on the opposite side of the crossing would sufficiently augment visibility in favor of pedestrian traffic.
Ultimately the City of Seattle agreed and mounted a second luminaire. After doing so, they agreed to compensate the young couple whom had been seriously injured in the collision.
