Tolliver v. United States

ORDER ON SUMMARY JUDGMENT

RONALD B. LEIGHTON, District Judge.

On March 17, 2007, a group of teenagers spent an evening drinking and socializing at a home on the Lower Elwha Indian Reservation. In the early morning hours, seven of the revelers piled into a car to head home. Two — Ronald Scroggins and Vanna Francis — would never arrive. Plaintiffs are the parents and estates of the two deceased teenagers. They argue that their children’s deaths were caused in part by a lack of signs and lighting on a dangerous road — errors for which Clallam County and the federal government should answer.…