Cho v. City of Seattle

¶ 1 A party must provide sufficient competent evidence to establish the essential elements of the action or, at the very least, a genuine issue of material facts as to those elements. Here, an inattentive drunk driver struck the plaintiff and several pedestrians in an unmarked crosswalk. The plaintiff’s assertion that had the city of Seattle (City) installed a pedestrian island, she would have stopped and waited for all oncoming traffic to proceed before continuing to cross the street is speculation that does not establish proximate cause. Further, under the circumstances here, where traffic…