The state of Washington has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a boy killed in a crosswalk in Parkland in 2022.

In July 2022, 13-year-old Michael Weilert was on a bicycle in the afternoon when he tried to cross Pacific Avenue (SR 7) at 143rd Street. He had pressed a button to activate a flashing light to alert traffic that he was crossing, but the button malfunctioned, according to the lawsuit.

A car struck him while he was riding his bike through the crosswalk. The crosswalk was near his home.

The complaint, filed in Pierce County Superior Court a year later, claimed that the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) knew the crossing light wasn’t operating properly for several weeks before the deadly crash, but, according to the lawsuit, the department failed to ta

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